Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2

Karl Weick is the Rensis Likert College Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. He is one of the leading figures in the American Academy of Management and he is seen by many as one of the most influential thinkers and writers in the field.

• Preface viiAcknowledgments ixPart I Introduction 11. Organized Impermanence: An Overview 32. Mundane Poetics: Searching for Wisdom in Organizational Theory 93. Faith, Evidence, and Action: Better Guesses in an Unknowable World 27Part II Attending 454. Managing the Unexpected: Complexity as Distributed Sensemaking 475. Information Overload Revisited 65Kathleen M. Sutcliffe and Karl. E Weick6. Organizing for Mindfulness: Eastern Wisdom and Western Knowledge 85Karl E. Weick and Ted PutnamPart III Interpretation 1077. Making Sense of Blurred Images: Mindful Organizing in Mission STS-107 1098. Organizing and the Process of Sensemaking 129Karl E. Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld9. Impermanent Systems and Medical Errors: Variety Mitigates Adversity 153Part IV Action 17310. Hospitals as Cultures of Entrapment: A Re-analysis of the Bristol Royal Infirmary 175Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe11. Enacting an Environment: The Infrastructure of Organizing 18912. Positive Organizing and Organizational Tragedy 207Part V Learning and Change 22313. Emergent Change as a Universal in Organizations 22514. Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies 24315. Leadership as the Legitimation of Doubt 261Epilogue 273References 275Index 281