Taking Positions in the Organization [Paperback]

This book on social constructionist thinking addresses the manager's job for creating reflective space for people to observe themselves and others. It explores broad societal and organizational discourses that offer positions from day-to-day realities that govern behaviour are constructed.Series Editors' Foreword -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Ideas that underpin the model -- Putting the model into practice -- Filling in the model -- Case studies with a primary focus on management -- Case studies with a primary focus on staff relations -- Exercises -- Being a consultant -- The client's voiceThis book on social constructionist thinking addresses the manager's job for creating reflective space for people to observe themselves and others. It explores broad societal and organizational discourses that offer positions from day-to-day realities that govern behaviour are constructed.USCopyright ? 2006 by David Campbell & Marianne Gr?nb?k