Session #33 Sensemaking

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 Identities Retrospective Enactment Social Ongoing Extracted Cues Plausability

Weick’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 1. Identities Many identities - Filters cues

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 2. Retrospective Looking back - Verbalizing to confirm

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 3. Enactment Speaking creates an object (concept) - Object is to be examined

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 4. Social Who socialized me - How that was done

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 5. Ongoing Sensemaking never stops

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 6. Extracted Cues What I single out - Governed by identity

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 7. Plausability If it seems right – it is right No alternatives evaluated - Search stops

Weik’s Seven Principles Weick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61 Identities Retrospective Enactment Social Ongoing Extracted Cues Plausability

Frames Locate Frames Augment Frames Combine Frames (Weick’s Construct) Locate Frames Augment Frames Combine Frames Synthesize (build) New Frames

The Communications Process Abstraction Concept Concept Feedback (Words) Decode Abstraction Encode Sender Concept Concept Sensemaker Feedback Decode Encode The Communications Process

Sensemaking

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