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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139671803321

Titolo

Making sense of the organisation Volume 2 : The impermanent organization

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, : Wiley, 2009

ISBN

9786613446046

9781119206453

1119206456

9780470685327

0470685328

9781283446044

1283446049

9780470748701

0470748702

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Classificazione

65

Altri autori (Persone)

WeickKarl E

Disciplina

658.4/06

Soggetti

Organizational change

Executives - Psychology

Leadership

Organisation

Ledelse

Psykologi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

GOBI

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Attending -- pt. 3. Interpretation -- pt. 4. Action -- pt. 5. Learning and change.

Sommario/riassunto

Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn.  These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves.  Readers of this volume will find a



wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action.  The author's ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams, and the management of change.  "This book engages the puzzle of impermanen