From the Roadmap to Actual Tasks - Case study: the implementation of strategy in a small educational organisation
Nyyssönen, Elise (2023)
2023
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202304276691
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202304276691
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In this thesis the researcher introduces a one possible way to plan and execute some of strategy implementation. The organisation in this research is a small educational organisation in Southern Finland. The organisation consists of thirty employees, the board of ten members, and about 270 students. The researcher works for the organisation as a vice-principal. The background of thesis is theory about a strategy, implementation of strategy, and effective implementation of strategy.
This is an action research expressing one possible way to bring in the plan into actions. The roadmap guides a way as a plan. The researcher will make a schedule and concrete actions to be implemented at the organisation. The objective of the thesis is to offer a case of one possible, effective implementation of the strategy. The development tasks include a plan of the first round implementations, describing the first piloting and finding out is there strategy in the daily context, and describing a case of effective implementation and its complications in the organisation.
The focus and values to dived in are sustainability in the education context, work life wellbeing and digital skills of the staff. Sustainability has background theories about elements of sustainable development in the school and shift of the paradigms. Work life wellbeing concentrates on the theory of feeling healthy at work with satisfaction, positive feelings, involvement, and engagement. The teacher wellbeing is one special view in the context. Digital skills of the staff are based on The European Commission groups of skills: information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety and problem solving.
The research approach is action research, with both qualitative and quantitative aspects. The data consists of facilitations, surveys, and an interview with the principal. Validity and reliability are considered. Actual tasks risen from the roadmap includes the research data. Facilitations about sustainability, surveys about digital skills and wellbeing at work, as well as an interview with the principal draws a picture about tasks. The data is then analysed by get the data and the theory talking together.
The main objectives of the strategy succeed during the research period. The main results include the stage of the sustainability in the organisation is changing from the cognitive to metacognitive stage. The school could also observe their state of sustainability. Wellbeing is good enough. Digital skills are adequate for get along of one’s own tasks. Conclusion introduces findings about the impacts of ageing, efficient communication, and sufficient and competent resources in strategy implementation.
This is an action research expressing one possible way to bring in the plan into actions. The roadmap guides a way as a plan. The researcher will make a schedule and concrete actions to be implemented at the organisation. The objective of the thesis is to offer a case of one possible, effective implementation of the strategy. The development tasks include a plan of the first round implementations, describing the first piloting and finding out is there strategy in the daily context, and describing a case of effective implementation and its complications in the organisation.
The focus and values to dived in are sustainability in the education context, work life wellbeing and digital skills of the staff. Sustainability has background theories about elements of sustainable development in the school and shift of the paradigms. Work life wellbeing concentrates on the theory of feeling healthy at work with satisfaction, positive feelings, involvement, and engagement. The teacher wellbeing is one special view in the context. Digital skills of the staff are based on The European Commission groups of skills: information and data literacy, communication and collaboration, digital content creation, safety and problem solving.
The research approach is action research, with both qualitative and quantitative aspects. The data consists of facilitations, surveys, and an interview with the principal. Validity and reliability are considered. Actual tasks risen from the roadmap includes the research data. Facilitations about sustainability, surveys about digital skills and wellbeing at work, as well as an interview with the principal draws a picture about tasks. The data is then analysed by get the data and the theory talking together.
The main objectives of the strategy succeed during the research period. The main results include the stage of the sustainability in the organisation is changing from the cognitive to metacognitive stage. The school could also observe their state of sustainability. Wellbeing is good enough. Digital skills are adequate for get along of one’s own tasks. Conclusion introduces findings about the impacts of ageing, efficient communication, and sufficient and competent resources in strategy implementation.