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Business and Economics
Organizational Change – MGF 3621
Tutorial 3 - Metaphors
Today’s Agenda Change strategies
Metaphors
Metaphors of Monash
Process Interventions
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Four Change StrategiesS
tyle
of
Man
agem
ent
3
Type 1
Participative
evolution
Type 2
Charismatic
transformation
Type 3
Forced
evolution
Scale of change
Type 4
Dictatorial
transformation
4
SOURCE
TY
PE
Internal External
Nat
ural
Ada
ptiv
e
Life-cycle Population Population EcologyEcology
Innovation Resource
dependence
Institutional theory
of imitationPlanned ChangePlanned Change
5
Lewinian Compared with Confucian View of Change
Lewinian/OD A BChange is…
– linear
– progressive– destination oriented
– based on creating disequilibrium
– planned and managed by people separate from the client system
– unusual
Confucian/East AsianChange is…
– cyclical
– processional/cyclical– journey oriented
– based on restoring/maintaining equilibrium
– at one with the client system– usual
Metaphors…
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As an intervention
– Unfreezing– Diagnostics– Institutionalization– Educational– Communication device– Common parlance (contemporary usage in language)
Utility of Metaphors
– Vividness– Compactness– Inexpressibility
Metaphors
Skilled use- Elicits a visual image
- Draws on common experience
- Provides licence to identify negative aspects
- Generative (innovation etc)
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Criticisms
– Imprecise– Can be dysfunctional– Partial insight– Too ‘flaky’
Business and Economics
Metaphors of Monash
A teambuilding intervention
Metaphors of Monash Individually
– what is YOUR definition of an organization?– what is YOUR definition of Monash?– a metaphor that best describes Monash for you
In your groups
– Share your answers, discuss – come to a conclusion– In twenty minutes…
Three Thesis of Metaphors
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Vividness
Compactness
Inexpressibility
Debrief… Unfreezing (ice breakers)
Diagnostics
(did you find anything wrong with Monash? Positive/negative aspects?)
Educational
Did you learn anything new about Monash today?
Communication device
What are you communicating back?
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Process Interventions Clarifying and summarizing
Synthesizing and generalizing
Probing and questioning
Listening
Reflecting feelings
Providing support, coaching and counselling
Modelling
Setting the agenda
Feeding back observations
Structural suggestions
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Next week..Is a study break!
NOT a holiday!!!
Please start RESEARCHING for your individual and group presentations!
See you in 2 weeks!
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