Woodberry, Constance Mary (2015) Good work: forging a model for a mission based business through professional mastery. Doctorate (other than PhD) thesis, University of Southern Queensland. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
This paper gives an account of one person’s journey towards achieving the level of professional mastery needed to execute important and useful work. The journey took the doctoral candidate through investigations into the meaning of place, followed by further research into special places facilitated by a series of symposiums in regional Australia and America. The insights into place, and the human role in creating and sustaining them, then led the candidate, quite
unexpectedly, to the field of natural landscape restoration and the development of a mission based business that delivers highly effective solutions to degraded land.
These travels have resulted in: (1) the articulation of the Special Places that Prosper factors, which provides guidance in community capacity building. (2) A significant shift in the mind set of land repair by addressing system function before system management. (3) A business design process that goes beyond traditional business modeling and offers a road map for future 'sustainable' start
up businesses to follow. (4) A Mission based Business Design that provides a blueprint for effective and ethical business-to-business service delivery in contentious and highly debated business environments.
The open nature of work based learning and practice based research made this journey possible and was the key factor in encouraging the exploration of place, the design innovation and in testing the veracity of the candidate’s theories about professional mastery, community capacity building and business modeling in a real world environment. Navigating the academic, as well as the everyday business expectations of a work based doctorate did prove challenging. However, all of these factors made it possible to take the knowledge creation process to its most desirable zenith – more than just a contribution to
professional knowledge and practice but to an understanding and improving of self in order to use increased professional mastery to contribute to good work.
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| Item Type: | Thesis (Non-Research) (Doctorate (other than PhD)) |
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| Item Status: | Live Archive |
| Additional Information: | Doctor of Professional Studies (DPST) (coursework) thesis. |
| Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: | Historic - Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts - School of Arts and Communication (1 Jul 2013 - 28 Feb 2019) |
| Supervisors: | Peach, Neil |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2015 07:02 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2019 04:36 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | professional mastery; professional knowledge; professional practice; mission based businesses; landscape restoration |
| Fields of Research (2008): | 15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 1503 Business and Management > 150311 Organisational Behaviour |
| Fields of Research (2020): | 35 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 3507 Strategy, management and organisational behaviour > 350710 Organisational behaviour |
| URI: | https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/27628 |
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