Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and LeadershipJohn 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:
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... Company,” the lobby banner proclaimed in the gleaming corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. With some justification. For six years running, Enron had been voted the most innovative of Fortune's “Most Admired Companies” (McLean, 2001 ...
... Company,” the lobby banner proclaimed in the gleaming corporate headquarters in Houston, Texas. With some justification. For six years running, Enron had been voted the most innovative of Fortune's “Most Admired Companies” (McLean, 2001 ...
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... company was in anything but excellent shape” (p. C-1). Skilling and his boss, Lay, were both viewed as brilliant men, yet ... company's high-risk accounting practices. Andersen moved him off the case. Andersen's top executive, Joseph F ...
... company was in anything but excellent shape” (p. C-1). Skilling and his boss, Lay, were both viewed as brilliant men, yet ... company's high-risk accounting practices. Andersen moved him off the case. Andersen's top executive, Joseph F ...
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... company that includes environmental and social metrics in its bottom line). All three are passionate about core values and create familylike bonds among employees and customers. The information technology revolution has bred an array of ...
... company that includes environmental and social metrics in its bottom line). All three are passionate about core values and create familylike bonds among employees and customers. The information technology revolution has bred an array of ...
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... company's flagging performance and about the chance that her job might soon disappear. She spots the black-onwhite ... company as seen from a processflow perspective. On the far left are the inputs to the process (or system); in the ...
... company's flagging performance and about the chance that her job might soon disappear. She spots the black-onwhite ... company as seen from a processflow perspective. On the far left are the inputs to the process (or system); in the ...
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... company's parking lot to burn the old restrictive policy manuals. “Bonfires in my company?” she muses. “I don't think so.” FRAMES. AND. REFRAMING. Had the executive visited another store in another year, she might have encountered other ...
... company's parking lot to burn the old restrictive policy manuals. “Bonfires in my company?” she muses. “I don't think so.” FRAMES. AND. REFRAMING. Had the executive visited another store in another year, she might have encountered other ...
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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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal Limited preview - 2003 |
Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership Lee G. Bolman,Terrence E. Deal No preview available - 2013 |
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