Reframing Organizations Artistry Choice and Leadership (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

About this book

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: The Structural Frame: how to organize and structure groups and teams to get results The Human Resource Frame: how 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 Frame: how 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