Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2 elaborates 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 the volume will find here a wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action. Weicks ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams and the management of change.
Book Details:
- Author: Karl E. Weick
- ISBN: 9780470685310
- Year Published: 2012
- Pages: 310
- BISAC: BUS085000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Organizational Behavior
About the Book and Topic:
Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2 elaborates 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 the volume will find here a wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action. Weicks ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams and the management of change.
The topic of how organizations make decisions and manage crisis is one of crucial importance in todays world, where the need for rapid effective response to unpredictable events by bureaucracies, governments, corporations and institutions, seems more pressing than ever before. Weicks classic essays are of interest in the public and private sectors and to students as well as managers.
AUTHOR PLATFORM: Karl Weick is one of the leading figures in the American Academy of Management. He is known around the world for his work on collective sensemaking under pressure, handoffs in extreme events, high-reliability performance, improvisation and continuous change. CONTEMPORARY THINKING: His insights offer a unique, radical approach to the problems of leadership and management, and to our notions of organizational learning. He introduces a revolutionary approach to leadership, change management and managing the unpredictable which is vital for todays managers and organization theorists alike. Using improvisation as a model, he highlights the peculiar way in which individuals respond (often unsuccessfully) to the unpredictable demands of a fast-changing environment. His work shows why group-think can be disastrous. INTERNATIONAL APPEAL: This new volume of essays will draw together Weicks latest thinking on the management of change, crisis and complex organization.
About the Author
Karl Weick is the Rensis Likert College Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. One of the most influential thinkers and writers in the Academy of Management, his work is seen by many as easily the most interesting and thought provoking stuff that has been written in the Management field in the last 40 years or so. Making Sense of the Organization Volume 2, brings the insights of psychology to the problems of management. Weicks penetrating analysis of the way collective decisions are made, often under conditions of duress, has had huge impact on our understanding of teamwork and leadership. His writings show how improved management practices can help steer a course through the most challenging and unmanageable situations.