Leaders’ Sensemaking in Communicating Organizational Change

The Social Processes of Organizational Sensemaking

A longitudinal study of the social processes of organizational sensemaking suggests that they unfold in four distinct forms: guided, fragmented, restricted, and minimal. These forms result from the degree to which leaders and stakeholders engage in “sensegiving”—attempts to influence others’ understandings of an issue. Each of the four forms of organizational sensemaking is associated with a di...

Spiritual Episteme: Sensemaking in the framework of Organizational Spirituality

Future Leaders' Views on Organizational Culture

Krisellen Maloney is Dean of Libraries at The University of Texas at San Antonio; e-mail: [email protected]. Kristin Antelman is Associate Director for the Digital Library at North Carolina State University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]. Kenning Arlitsch is Associate Director for IT Services in the J. Willard Marriott Library at University of Utah; e-mail: kenning.arlits...

Organizational Innovation and Organizational Change

Three ideas—a complex division of labor, an organic structure, and a highrisk strategy—provoke consistent findings relative to organizational innovation. Of these three ideas, the complexity of the division of labor is most important because it taps the organizational learning, problem-solving, and creativity capacities of the organization. The importance of a complex division of labor has been...

Applying organizational routines in understanding organizational change

Organizational routines are considered basic components of organizational behavior and repositories of organizational capabilities (Nelson & Winter, 1982). They do, therefore, hold one of the keys to understanding organizational change. The article focuses on how the concept of organizational routines can be applied in empirical research to understand organizational change. We identify problems...