Systems and Meaning,9781855752351

Systems and Meaning

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ISBN13: 9781855752351
ISBN10: 1855752352
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Karnac Books
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Summary

This book looks at organisational problems occurring in a particular context, and clearly traces the way problems arise out of relations amongst the different parts of the larger system. It also pursues the meanings that these problems have for individuals and organisations alike. The authors, who are both practitioners experienced in working with organisations, show how their ideas can be implemented in different settings.

Table of Contents

About the Authors ix
Editors' Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Organizational consultation in a systemic perspective
1(16)
Gitte Haslebo
When consultation is considered
3(14)
Organizational consultation and learning
17(22)
Gitte Haslebo
Learning in Organizations
17(5)
Stages in the collective learning process
22(7)
Consultation as the staging of collective learning processes
29(6)
Methodological considerations and the collective learning process
35(4)
``Assess our manager and expose his shortcomings'': A consultation in a private company
39(34)
Kit Sanne Nielsen
Case study
40(21)
A systemic model of learning
61(3)
The consultant's final reflections
64(1)
Putting systemic concepts into practice
65(8)
``Free us from the past!'': a consultation in a municipality
73(28)
Gitte Haslebo
Case study
74(20)
Turning systemic ideas into practice
94(7)
Key concepts in systemic thinking
101(38)
Gitte Haslebo
Kit Sanne Nielsen
First-and second-order cybernetics
101(3)
The linear and the circular line of thinking
104(6)
From neutrality to irreverence
110(5)
The professional domains
115(8)
Hypothesizing
123(5)
Interventions
128(11)
The consultant's cognitive processes in practice: When two consultants work together
139(18)
Kit Sanne Nielsen
How I learned to be an organizational consultant
139(2)
Cooperating with other consultants: Similarities and discrepancies
141(4)
Cooperating with internal consultants
145(6)
The consultant's own learning: the qualitative leap
151(6)
The consultant's cognitive processes in practice: receiving supervision
157(14)
Gitte Haslebo
How I learned to be an organizational consultant
157(4)
Supervision
161(8)
Receiving supervision and the individual learning spiral
169(2)
Epilogue
171(6)
Gitte Haslebo
Kit Sanne Nielsen
Consultation work requires personal development
171(2)
Consultation work is a learning process in itself
173(1)
The end of the information society?
173(2)
Future leaders have to be experts at learning processes
175(2)
References and Bibliography 177(6)
Index 183

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