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Karl E. Weick

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Karl E. Weick

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Also known as Karl Edward Weick

Organisational psychologist

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14

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  • Managing the unexpected in prescribed fire and fire use operations
  • Governare l'inatteso. Organizzazioni capaci di affrontare le crisi con successo
  • On generating better organizational theories
  • Unerwartete Managen
  • Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2

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Group
Origin
United States
Active from
1972-10
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Quotes

  • In any potential collectivity, members have different interests, capabilities, preferences, and so forth. They want to accomplish different things. However, to achieve some of these diverse ends, concerted, interdependent actions are required.
  • They [laboratory groups] bypass such questions as how one comes to know that a problem exists, what it does to solution adequacy to be working on several different things concurrently with problem solving, what it's like to go about solving a felt, intuited problem rather than an explicitly stated consensually validated problem which was made visible to all members at a specific point in time.
  • There is no methodological process by which one can confirm the existence of an object independent of the confirmatory process involving oneself. The outside is a void, there is only the inside. A person's world, the inside or internal view is all that can be known. The rest can only be the object of speculation.
  • The environment is located in the mind of the actor and is imposed by him on experience in order to make that experience more meaningful. It is seldom dawns on organizational theorists to look for environments inside of heads rather than outside of them.
  • If an organization is to learn anything, then the distribution of its memory, the accuracy of that memory, and the conditions under which that memory is treated as a constraint become crucial characteristics of organizing.
  • If all of the elements in a large system are loosely coupled to one another, then any one element can adjust to and modify a local a local unique contingency without affecting the whole system. These local adaptations can be swift, relatively economical, and substantial.

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date of birth
1936-10-31
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