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Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves. Readers of this volume will find a wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action. The author′s ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams, and the management of change.
“This book engages the puzzle of impermanence in organizing. Through rich examples, evocative language, artful literature citing, and imaginative connecting, Weick re–introduces core ideas and themes around attending, interpreting, acting and learning to unlock new insights about impermanent organizing. The wisdom in this book is timeless and timely. It prods scholars and managers of organizations to complicate their views of organizing in ways that enrich thought and action.” – Jane E. Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan
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The seeming permanence of organizations conceals an endless cycle of interruptions, recoveries, and re–organizing. This fundamental cycle is explored in a series of essays that focus on ways in which people organize their attention, interpretations, actions, and learning in order to cope with impermanence. Coping is explored in settings such as the spread of a puzzling virus, a foam strike on the space shuttle, excess deaths following pediatric surgery, wildland fires that suddenly explode, and the misidentification of fingerprints in a crime lab. Recovery from events such as these tends to be rough. The fixes made in the name of recovery tend to be transient and eventually give way to new interruptions, new challenges for sensemaking, and renewed efforts to reorganize. The purpose of these essays is to render the challenges less mysterious.
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Another outstanding book by Karl Weick (and friends)
24 Nov 2009
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Karl Weick changed the focus of management science from static (i.e., on organizations) to dynamic (the process of organizing) back in 1979. Since then, he's edited key journals, taught countless students, and turned out reliably well-written and well-thought books. Making Sense of the Organization is the latest addition to my bookshelf.
In this book, Weick emphasizes that people are always making sense of their "organization" while their thoughts and actions are creating (enacting) the organization. The individual chapters provide complementary essays on how this happens and what the consequences are for people who would lead and manage today.
Highly recommend for all students and faculty in management sciences, organizational behavior, and organizational psychology areas...but it is good for managers, too!
In this book, Weick emphasizes that people are always making sense of their "organization" while their thoughts and actions are creating (enacting) the organization. The individual chapters provide complementary essays on how this happens and what the consequences are for people who would lead and manage today.
Highly recommend for all students and faculty in management sciences, organizational behavior, and organizational psychology areas...but it is good for managers, too!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fine ideas, obscure language
31 Oct 2011
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I like Weick's idea about "seeing is forgetting the name of the thing seen." To put this notion into practice, an organization leader/member should live in reality, and play an active role in reconstructing reality.
His language is obscure and redundant sometimes.
His language is obscure and redundant sometimes.
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