Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2
The Impermanent Organization
Published on 12. January 2012
310 pages
978-0-470-68532-7 (ISBN)
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Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on theinfluential idea that organizations are interpretation systems thatscan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent anew approach to the way managers learn and act in response to theirenvironment and the way organizational change evolves. Readers of this volume will find a wealth of examples and insightswhich go well beyond thinking and cognition to explainaction. The author's ideas are at the forefront of ourthinking on leadership, teams, and the management of change.
"This book engages the puzzle of impermanence inorganizing. Through rich examples, evocative language, artfulliterature citing, and imaginative connecting, Weick re-introducescore ideas and themes around attending, interpreting, acting andlearning to unlock new insights about impermanent organizing. The wisdom in this book is timeless and timely. It prods scholarsand managers of organizations to complicate their views oforganizing in ways that enrich thought and action." - Jane E.Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor,University of Michigan
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Karl Weick is the Rensis Likert College Professor ofOrganizational Behavior and Psychology, and Professor of Psychologyat the University of Michigan.
He is one of the leading figures in the American Academy ofManagement and he is seen by many as one of the most influentialthinkers and writers in the field.
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
PART I INTRODUCTION.
1. Organized Impermanence: An Overview.
2. Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in OrganizationalTheory.
3. Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an UnknowableWorld.
PART II ATTENDING.
4. Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as DistributedSensemaking.
5. Information Overload Revisited (Kathleen M. Sutcliffe andKarl. E Weick).
6. Organizing for Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom and WesternKnowledge (Karl E. Weick and Ted Putnam).
PART III INTERPRETATION.
7. Making Sense of Blurred Images: Mindful Organizing in MissionSTS-107.
8. Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking (Karl E. Weick,Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld).
9. Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety MitigatesAdversity.
PART IV ACTION.
10. Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-analysis of theBristol Royal Infirmary (Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M.Sutcliffe).
11. Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure ofOrganizing.
12. Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy.
PART V LEARNING AND CHANGE.
13. Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations.
14. Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies.
15. Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt.
Epilogue.
References.
Index.
