Sensemaking in Organizations (Foundations for Organizational Science)

By Karl E. Weick

Book Overview

The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of real-world organizations and their environments. In this landmark volume, Karl E Weick highlights how the sensemaking' process shapes organizational structure and behaviour. The process is seen as the creation of reality as an ongoing accomplishment that takes form when people make retrospective sense of the situations in which they find themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080397177X
• ISBN13: 9780803971776
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Powerful insight into how people work together

This book has a very academic tone but it has some powerful implications for anyone in business. The book makes a number of points that are not intuitive but that are very powerful. For example, he talks about the advantages of speed, confidence, and plausibility in problem solving and why they may be more important than accuracy