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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... frame makes it easier to know what you are up against and what you can do ... frames are both windows on a territory and tools for navigation. Every tool has ... symbolic (Bolman and Deal, 1984)—have since been explored and adapted by ...
... frame makes it easier to know what you are up against and what you can do ... frames are both windows on a territory and tools for navigation. Every tool has ... symbolic (Bolman and Deal, 1984)—have since been explored and adapted by ...
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... symbolic frame, drawing on social and cultural anthropology, treats organizations as tribes, theaters, or carnivals. It abandons assumptions of rationality more prominent in other frames. It sees organizations as cultures, propelled ...
... symbolic frame, drawing on social and cultural anthropology, treats organizations as tribes, theaters, or carnivals. It abandons assumptions of rationality more prominent in other frames. It sees organizations as cultures, propelled ...
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... frame sees organizations as competitive arenas characterized by scarce resources, competing interests, and struggles for power and advantage. Finally, the symbolic frame focuses on issues of meaning and 18 REFRAMING ORGANIZATIONS ...
... frame sees organizations as competitive arenas characterized by scarce resources, competing interests, and struggles for power and advantage. Finally, the symbolic frame focuses on issues of meaning and 18 REFRAMING ORGANIZATIONS ...
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... symbolic frame focuses on issues of meaning and faith. It puts ritual, ceremony, story, play, and culture at the heart of organizational life. Each of the frames is both powerful and coherent. Collectively, they make it possible to ...
... symbolic frame focuses on issues of meaning and faith. It puts ritual, ceremony, story, play, and culture at the heart of organizational life. Each of the frames is both powerful and coherent. Collectively, they make it possible to ...
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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 |
Other editions - View all
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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