Systems and Meaning

, by Haslebo, Gitte; Nielsen, Kit Sanne; Silver, Dorte Herholdt

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ISBN: 9781855752351 | 1855752352
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2000

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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.

About the Authors

Editors' Foreword

Preface

xiii

Organizational consultation in a systemic perspective

(16)

Gitte Haslebo

When consultation is considered

(14)

Organizational consultation and learning

(22)

Gitte Haslebo

Learning in Organizations

(5)

Stages in the collective learning process

(7)

Consultation as the staging of collective learning processes

(6)

Methodological considerations and the collective learning process

(4)

``Assess our manager and expose his shortcomings'': A consultation in a private company

(34)

Kit Sanne Nielsen

Case study

(21)

A systemic model of learning

(3)

The consultant's final reflections

(1)

Putting systemic concepts into practice

(8)

``Free us from the past!'': a consultation in a municipality

(28)

Gitte Haslebo

Case study

(20)

Turning systemic ideas into practice

(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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Systems and Meaning

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