Product Description

In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples:

• The Structural Frame: how to organize and structure groups and teams to get results
• The Human Resource Frame: how to tailor organizations to satisfy human needs, improve human resource management, and build positive interpersonal and group dynamics
• The Political Frame: how to cope with power and conflict, build coalitions, hone political skills, and deal with internal and external politics
• The Symbolic Frame: how to shape a culture that gives purpose and meaning to work, stage organizational drama for internal and external audiences, and build team spirit through ritual, ceremony, and story

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4303 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

Amazon.com
At a time when managers everywhere are seeking strong but sensible ways to reorient their companies for the coming millennium, a new edition of Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership, by Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal, reintroduces the bestselling authors' clear and insightful approach to "big picture" management. Updated examples add to those previously drawn from business, education, health care, and the public sector to help today's leaders prepare more creatively for tomorrow's needs.

Book Info
Text presents the powerful tool of 'reframing;' explaining the structural, human resource, political, and symbolic frames. Shows how multiple frames give leaders an edge in decoding organizational complexity. Highlights current research developments. Previous ed: c1997. Softcover, hardcover available. DLC: Management.

Card catalog description
Bolman and Deal consolidate key learnings from organization theory into four practical, easy-to-understand perspectives or "frames": structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. These frames provide a complete portrait of an organization and allow managers to clarify issues and create a flexible, dynamic, "big picture" management strategy. Using numerous examples from business, education, health care, and the public sector, the authors demonstrate how to integrate these four frames into a powerful and coherent strategy that can be applied to any organization. Drawing on a wealth of new material, fresh insights, and current examples, this more concise second edition of Reframing Organizations provides a sharp perspective on the rapidly changing business and political climate of the late 1990s.

Customer Reviews

Valuable book, also for social sector administrators
My prof used it as a required text in the course I took. It's great! Through this book I can understand why things didn't work at my previous work experience at a higher ed. institution. I definitely recommend the book to everyone, including those who work at the social sectors as you'll understand why you need to use politics, pay attention to human resource and organization structure!

Reframing Organizations is very good!
Though I had to purchase this book for a leadership class, after reading it, I thought it was very good with lots of useful information.

Good reframing
This book is still very timely, but I also highly recommend "Growing Great Employees" by Erika Andersen as an addition to this book. Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers