1. Session #33
Sensemaking

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Sensemaking

14. Have a nice day!