Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

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John Wiley & Sons, 2013 M01 9 - 512 pages
In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples:
  • The Structural Frame: how to organize and structure groups and teams to get results
  • The Human Resource Frame: how to tailor organizations to satisfy human needs, improve human resource management, and build positive interpersonal and group dynamics
  • The Political Frame: how to cope with power and conflict, build coalitions, hone political skills, and deal with internal and external politics
  • The Symbolic Frame: how to shape a culture that gives purpose and meaning to work, stage organizational drama for internal and external audiences, and build team spirit through ritual, ceremony, and story

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Contents

PART TWO THE STRUCTURAL FRAME
41
PART THREE THE HUMAN RESOURCE FRAME
111
PART FOUR THE POLITICAL FRAME
181
PART FIVE THE SYMBOLIC FRAME
239
PART SIX IMPROVING LEADERSHIP PRACTICE
301
APPENDIX THE BEST OF ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES SCHOLARS HITS AND POPULAR BESTSELLERS
435
REFERENCES
439
NAME INDEX
459
SUBJECT INDEX
471
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Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal are the best-selling authors of Leading with Soul. Bolman holds the Marion Bloch Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Business, University of Missouri Kansas City. He consults worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities, and schools. Deal is the Irving R. Melbo Professor of Education at the Rossier School, University of Southern California, and an international consultant to business, health care, military, educational, and religious organizations.

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