Session #27 Sensemaking

1. Session #27 Sensemaking

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. 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

9. 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 are evaluated • Search stops

10. 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

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

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

13. Sensemaking

14. Have a nice day!