Reframing Organizations: kap 1-2

Question 1

How is “frame” defined in “Reframing organizations”?

Answer 1

A frame is a mental model—a set of ideas and assumptions—that you carry in your head to help you understand and negotiate a particular “territory.”

Question 2

Which four frames are the focus of “Reframing organizations”?

Answer 2

Structural
Human resource
Political
Symbolic

Question 3

What is the metaphor for the organization in the “structural frame”?

Answer 3

Factory/machine

Question 4

What is the metaphor for the organization in the “human resource frame”?

Answer 4

Family

Question 5

What is the metaphor for the organization in the “political frame”?

Answer 5

Jungle

Question 6

What is the metaphor for the organization in the “symbolic frame”?

Answer 6

Carnival, temple, theater

Question 7

Name three typical simplistic fallacies in explaining organizational problems

Answer 7

Blaming people
Blaming bureaucracy
Blaming thirst for power

Question 8

Name three types of reflection mentioned in the lecture

Answer 8

• “Free thinking”
• “One formal theory”
• “Multiple frames”

Question 9

“What is percieved as real is real in its consequences” - how is this quote related to framing?

Answer 9

Since the world is ultimately internally constructed by the individual, a particular framing of a situation may affect “reality” and how we react to it.