Introducing the field of managing organizations Flashcards
The Practice of management
Coordinating communicating and controlling various others
- These others may be thought of as stakeholders
Organizations and identity
Organizations shape our lives and our identifies
Identity - is the way a person constructs, interprets and understands who they are in relation to others in their life world
Super individualists - entrepreneurs break the rules and are risk-takers, and are the founding figures behind a succesful business idea and forge organizational identity
Managing refers to a person in charge of controlling and directing the affairs of a business, institution or agency
Managers manage in organizations
Organizations have the following characteristics
Organization rules
- Organizations go on while members change
- Organizations are characterized by complex time-reckoning systems
Many types of rules
Rules:
- Formal rules - starting time
- Professional rules
- Legal rules
- Standards
- Informal social rules
Identity and culture
- Identity through front-stage positioning of organization culture
- Front-stage positioning dependent on many back stage alliances and blurred identities and boundaries
Organizations & identity
Organizational identity
- Pressures for difference
- When organization boundaries blur or are cross-cut
Why so little variation in organizations?
Institutions comprise one or other of a mixture of three elements
- Cultural
- Normative
- Regulative
Organization hierarchy
- Hierarchy doesn’t always work well
- It is seen a lot
How do organizations change?
- Instutional entrepreneurs
- Organizational hypocrisy
Sensemaking
- This helps all stakeholders make similar sense of the organization
Defined - The ongoing restropective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing
Sensemaking - common sense
- Has to be made
- Has to be shared
- Has to be binding
- Needs cues
- Relies on artefacts
Reiterating managerial sensemaking
- Social context
- Personal identity
- Retrospection
- Salient cues
- Ongoing projects
- Plausibility
- Enactment
- Drafting
- Doing
