The Pressure for Growth as an Organisational Problem

1979 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-16
Author(s):  
Lars Engwall
Keyword(s):  
Organisational Problem

scholarly journals SEARCHING FOR TROUBLE: RECRUITING ASSISTANCE THROUGH EMBODIED ACTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Drew ◽  
Kobin H. Kendrick
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Organisational Problem ◽  
Embodied Action

The recruitment of assistance constitutes a basic organisational problem for participants in social interaction. The methods of recruitment that we have identified include embodied displays of trouble, which create opportunities for others to give or offer assistance. In this report, we examine one coherent set of such embodied displays in detail: visible searches of the environment. We first distinguish between looking and searching as different forms of embodied action and then describe the specific embodied practices that participants use to produce visible searches.

scholarly journals Pedagogy and Process in 'Organisational Problem-Solving'

10.28945/2984 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Paul Kawalek
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Learning Set ◽  
Organisational Problem ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Development Objectives ◽  
Learning Sets ◽  
The Way

This paper outlines a case study in which a management development learning process was tightly coupled to organisational change and development objectives. The case discusses how a research and consulting team came together to develop highly reflexive pedagogy to support the work of internal managers who were organised into teams (‘learning sets’ of sorts, but which came to be known as 'ThinkTanks'). These were to undertake ‘organisational problem solving’, which involved the integration of various inquiring activities. These learning sets had as their objective, to help members become catalysts of organisational change and performance improvement within a large organisation, applying the inquiring principles. In order to structure the discourse amongst learning set members, a range of principles and constructs were used. Central to these was a form of process modelling, (termed ‘models of teleological human process’). These were carefully introduced to learning set members, and were used to provide a ‘basis for a discourse’ amongst set members about problematic organisational processes and how to change them. These were based on system theory, in a particular form, in which models were used as a component of inquiry into current and future processes, rather than to 'specify' a given process, in an absolute sense. The inquiring activities were facilitated by 'Set Advisers', whose role it was to keep the set focused on learning outcomes, and to encourage critical reflexivity in the process. Thus members were encouraged to 'think about the way they were thinking about action', which gave a much more dynamic intellectual basis for the learning set's activities. It also enabled a rich analytical discourse, in which members were expected to justify their perceptions rather than make assertions, or 'defend assertions'. The researchers were genuinely surprised by the way the set members were able to undertake this, and indeed, on reflection, how set members felt 'liberated' by the approach taken.

scholarly journals SEARCHING FOR TROUBLE: RECRUITING ASSISTANCE THROUGH EMBODIED ACTION

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Drew ◽  
Kendrick Kobin H.
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Organisational Problem ◽  
Embodied Action

The recruitment of assistance constitutes a basic organisational problem for participants in social interaction. The methods of recruitment that we have identified include embodied displays of trouble, which create opportunities for others to give or offer assistance. In this report, we examine one coherent set of such embodied displays in detail: visible searches of the environment. We first distinguish between looking and searching as different forms of embodied action and then describe the specific embodied practices that participants use to produce visible searches.

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