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基本説明
Analyses how managers and other organization members can maintain their hope for the rational organization.
Full Description
This book explains how great hopes can be kept afloat in the face of discouraging experiences -- why people often fail to learn from experience, but continue to believe in unrealised and unrealistic ideals.
Contents
Preface Chapter 1intelligence - The rule about rationality - Rules for what we want, say, and do - A world of failure, reform, and hope Chapter 2: Organizations and Rational Reforms - The rational model and organizational practice - The rational model in presentations and intentions - Reforms - Reform as a threat to hope - Design and methods Chapter 3: Selling Rational Reforms - Two rational reforms - The rational as self-evident - Rationality for others - Selling principles - The irrelevance of experience - Presentation instead of practice - Principle and practice Chapter 4: Buying Rational Reform - An irrational buying process - A well known principle - Watering down and projection - Constructing an organization - Distancing from practices - Similarities between sellers and buyers Chapter 5: The Reception of Rational Reforms - The local edition of the rational principle - Application - system, meaning, and construction - A realistic model - Usefulness - A soft reception Chapter 6: Learning About Rationality - Continues Reforms - The reformers' experiences - Learning at E-city - Conclusion - continued reform - Learning Chapter 7: Learning to Hope - A model of experiential learning - Lack of information - Irrelevance of information - Learning about things other than the principle - Learning about causes: special factors and resistance - Hopeful learning - Learning about the rational principle - Thought or talk Chapter 8: A Public Debate - There is no alternative! - Watering down - Model characteristics rather than effects - The evasive practice - The principle is right and the practice is wrong - Preserving hope at a distance Chapter 9: The Mechanisms of Hope - Avoiding practice - Selection of practice - rationality at a distance in time and space - Interpreting everything for the best - Separating the world of ideas from the practical world - The Act of Hope - An application Chapter 10: The Intricacies of Hope - Introducing rationality with the help of irrationality - Hoe as outcome or cause - A culture of hope - Implications for reforms - Hopefulness and hopelessness References
