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Session Hand Outs
Session Hand Outs
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My core beliefs
related to HR
My core beliefs
related to HR
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Reframing Organizations
Bohlman & Deal
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Case Study #1
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Complex Surprising
Deceptive Ambiguous
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Common Mistakes in
Organizational Diagnosis
Blame Blame
people bureaucracy
Thirst for
power
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Factories Families
Jungles Temples
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Structural Human
Frame Resource
(factories) Frame
(families)
Political Symbolic
Frame Frame
(jungles) (temples)
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Human
Structural
Resource
Frame
Frame
“A frame is a
set of ideas or Political Symbolic
you carry in
your head” The Four-Frame Model
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Assumptions Frame”
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An example
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An example
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scarce resources
• Conflict is rampant due to differences in needs,
perspectives, lifestyles
• Bargaining, negotiation, coercion and compromise are a
normal part of everyday life, and bring solutions
• Coalitions form around special interests, change as
issues come and go
• What creates problems: power is concentrated in the
wrong places, or is so broadly dispersed that nothing
gets done
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An example
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Examples
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Structural Human
Frame Resource g
n d in
c t u re (factories) Frame e rsta
A rc h
ite Und h s,
(families) s t r e n gt tio n s,
e
o f th izatio n , th e s, e m o
of
O rga
n fo ib le n d fe a rs
and sa
ru s
le need
e o p le
and th e p
ro le s s
c ie
p o li
Political Symbolic
Frame Frame es of d
io n Va lu an
p etit (jungles) (temples) n in g
Com m e a ritu a l
c a rc e fa ith
,
e a rt
fo r s rce s, th e h
u and
re s o fo r
g le s e
o f th izatio n
st r u g a n d n
er
p o w ta g e o rga
n
a d va
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“Successful
people reframe
until they
understand the
situation at The Four-Frame Model
hand.”
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Case Study #1
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Case Study #2
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“new normal”
to be an “artist”
in finding solutions Political Symbolic
you’ve not seen Frame Frame
before?
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