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Karl Edward Weick (born October 31, 1936) is an American organizational theorist who introduced the concepts of "loose coupling", "mindfulness", and "sensemaking" into organizational studies. He is the Rensis Likert Distinguished University Professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan .
In 1969, Karl Weick played on this title in his book The Social Psychology of Organizing, shifting the focus from organizations as entities to organizing as an activity. It was especially the second edition, published ten years later (Weick, 1979) that established Weick's approach in organization studies.
To paraphrase a primary theme in Karl Weick’s classic book, The Social Psychology of Organizing, 11 this approach means learning to “argue as if you are right and to listen as if you are wrong." em and link added. fiveby 18:52, 13 May 2023 (UTC) I see the maxim, attributed to Weick, mainly given in one of two versions:
Organizational Information Theory (OIT) is a communication theory, developed by Karl Weick, offering systemic insight into the processing and exchange of information within organizations and among its members. Unlike the past structure-centered theory, OIT focuses on the process of organizing in dynamic, information-rich environments.
A cosmology episode is a sudden loss of meaning, followed eventually by a transformative pivot, which creates the conditions for revised meaning. [1] [2]In the wake of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster, and the relatively sudden insertion of personal computers into the workplace, organizational scholar Karl E ...
The “spacing effect” refers to a phenomenon whereby learning, or the creation of a memory, occurs more effectively when information, or exposure to a stimulus, is spaced out.
For 30 years, Rose Bowl co-host Leeza Gibbons, 67, had a near-constant presence on network television.. From 1984 to 2000, she was a correspondent and co-host of Entertainment Tonight, and the ...
While the early research focused on high risk industries, other expressed interest in HROs and sought to emulate their success. A key turning point was Karl Weick, Kathleen M. Sutcliffe, and David Obstfeld's [14] reconceptualization of the literature on high reliability. These researchers systematically reviewed the case study literature on ...