Sensemaking in Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)
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The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of real-world organizations and their environments. In this landmark volume, Karl E Weick highlights how the `sensemaking′ process shapes organizational structure and behaviour. The process is seen as the creation of reality as an ongoing accomplishment that takes form when people make retrospective sense of the situations in which they find themselves.
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Karl Weick created a new vision for management through sense-making. Weick alluded to the idea that how people make sense of their environment is the method for decision-making and that communication can be misinterpreted between management and employees doing the work creating a disfunction in organizational productivity. This is an excellent idea that is not imposed enough today. The concept should be more direct presently for better acceptance.
