Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2 The Impermanent Organization

by Weick, Karl E.

• ISBN13: 9780470742204
• ISBN10: 0470742208
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The Unexpected 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.

Author Biography

Karl Weick is the Rensis Likert College Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan.

He is one of the leading figures in the American Academy of Management and he is seen by many as one of the most influential thinkers and writers in the field.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Organized Impermanence: An Overview

Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in Organizational Theory

Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World

Attending

Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as Distributed Sensemaking

Information Overload Revisited

Organizing for Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge

Interpretation

Making Sense of Blurred Images: Mindful Organizing in Mission STS-107

Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking

Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety Mitigates Adversity

Action

Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary

Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing

Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy

Learning And Change

Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations

Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies

Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt

Epilogue

References

Index

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