Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Paperback Kindle Audible Audiobook Hardcover Audio CD

REFRAMING ORGANIZATIONS: CONTENTS AT A GLANCE

PART 1: MAKING SENSE OF ORGANIZATIONS

Focuses on sense-making and tackles a perplexing question about management: Why is that smart people so often do dumb things?

PART 2: THE STRUCTURAL FRAME

Explores the key role that social architecture plays in the functioning of organizations.

PART 3: THE HUMAN RESOURCE FRAME

Discusses the properties of both people and organizations, and what happens when human nature and businesses intersect.

PART 4: THE POLITICAL FRAME

Views organizations as arenas where individuals and groups compete to achieve their parochial interests in a world of conflicting viewpoints, scarce resources, and struggles for power.

PART 5: THE SYMBOLIC FRAME

Highlights basic symbolic elements in organizations that help define organizational culture: myths, heroes, metaphors, stories, humor, play, rituals, and ceremonies.

PART 6: IMPROVING LEADERSHIP PRACTICE

Delves into the implications of the frames for central issues in managerial practice, including leadership, change, and ethics.