Session #27

Sensemaking

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

• Identities• Retrospective• Enactment• Social• Ongoing• Extracted Cues• Plausability

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

1. Identities- Many identities- Filters cues

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

2. Retrospective- Looking back- verbalizing to confirm

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, 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

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

4. Social- Who socialized me- How that was done

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

5. Ongoing- Sensemaking never stops

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

6. Extracted cues- What I single out- Governed by identity

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, 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

Weik’s Seven PrinciplesWeick, K. E.(1995). Sensemaking in organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. P. 61-61

• Identities• Retrospective• Enactment• Social• Ongoing• Extracted Cues• Plausability

Frames(Weick’s Construct)

• Locate Frames• Augment Frames• Combine Frames• Synthesize (build) New Frames

Concept

Abstraction

Concept

Feedback

Sender

Receiver

Encode

Encode

Decode

Decode

(Words)

The CommunicationsProcess

Sensemaking

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