> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:39:15 -0500 (CDT)
> From: kenyonjh@ctrvax.Vanderbilt.Edu (Jeff Kenyon)
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> Terry describes each frame in metaphoric terms: an organization is a
> factory (structural), a family (human resource), a jungle (political), and
> a temple (symbolic). BTW, managers tend to operate primarily in the
> structural and human resource frames, while leaders operate primarily in
> the political and symbolic frames.
>
> Anyway, further to Barry Mallis' comment about Justice, in addition to
> metaphors, each frame has its own ethic. In the structural frame it's
> "excellence", in the H. R. frame it's "caring", in the political frame
> it's "justice", and in the symbolic frame it's "faith". (Put them
> together and you've got a pretty good motto.)
>
One problem I see with most managers in this part of the world
(USA), and I am pretty sure it exists in some other western countries too,
is that they do not even go beyond structure. The only part of the HRM
aspects managers use or rely on is on the HRM processes. They do not use
a lot of "caring" activities and actions. MOst managers do not have a
clear sense of justice (I'm not sure I do either!), and most of them have
lost faith on a lot of things. They do rely on symbols, but they do so
from the structural perspective only. They do not go too far into the
intrinsicacies (sp!), of people, faifth, spirit, symbols, etc.
> It seems that power and spirit in the organization are inextricably
> linked--two sides of the same coin perhaps. IMHO, the fundamental
> tensions between frames are mediated by the symbolic frame. All the
> frames, including the symbolic frame represent curricula (and are drawn
> from the research from discrete academic disciplines). I believe that as
> a process, learning is the coin of the symbolic realm since it ultimately
> involves the making of meaning.
>
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I believe that when we mix power and spirit, or when we link them
together, then we have the managers (facilitators or coaches) who really
and trully understand that when they share their power they gain more
power. I am not so sure that this is the case in most organizations.
BTW, it may no longer be convennient to see things as being a coin with
two sides. Most event are multifaceted, and the two-side approach might
be too much simplification.
I have used Bolman and Deal's book in my classes.
Ivan,
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