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Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership

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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The Structural Framehow to organize and structure groups and teams to get results

The Human Resource Framehow 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 Framehow 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

Audience
adult
Length
long · 484 pages

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