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A New Paradigm for Understanding and Intervening in Organizational Life

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Gestion et management

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Publié par	Triarchy Press
Date de parution	02 septembre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781911193623
Langue	English

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Published in 2019 by:
Triarchy Press
Axminster, England
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www.triarchypress.net
Copyright © Barry Oshry, 2019
The right of Barry Oshry to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including photocopying, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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ISBN: 978-1-911193-61-6
ePub ISBN: 978-1-911193-62-3
PDF ISBN: 978-1-911193-63-0
in memory of Kurt Lewin
There is nothing so practical as a good theory
Contents
Summary
A visit to my local bookstore
There is no new paradigm
Pre-paradigm endless possibilities
A proposed candidate for paradigm status
The elements of the Organic Systems Framework
Whole organic systems as patterns of systemic relationship
Whole organic systems as patterns of system processes
Scenarios resulting from blindness to system processes
The patterns we fall into shape our consciousness
Understanding the root of our experiences
OSF as a paradigm candidate
Does anyone really care about scientific paradigms?
Summary of the Organic Systems Framework
References
About the Author
About the Publisher
Summary
The object of this booklet is twofold:
1. to establish that despite the frequent references to paradigms and paradigm shifts in the management and organization literature, there are no scientific paradigms as Thomas Kuhn has described in his landmark essay.
2. to make the case for the Organic Systems Framework (OSF) being a legitimate candidate for paradigm status, one from which research that extends, elaborates, tests, and applies the framework follows naturally.
A visit to my local bookstore
This story began in 2000 with a visit to my local bookstore. I was there with my granddaughter, our primary business being to find a book for her. As she rummaged through the shelves of the Young Adult Section, my eye caught a book lying by itself on an adjacent countertop: Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962).
Though I’d never read the book, I had heard it referenced in countless conversations regarding one or another new approaches to organizational life; everywhere you turned there was talk of ‘new paradigms’. Kuhn’s book just had no business being where it was. This was neither the Science nor the Philosophy Section; its nearest neighborhood was the Young Adult Section, and I could not envision my granddaughter or any of her compatriots being engrossed by Kuhn, at this stage of their lives at least. So, what was this book doing there? I leaned on the counter and began to read. After a few gasps and Wows! it was clear: The book was there for me.
There is no new paradigm
Despite the obligatory references to Thomas Kuhn’s work, there is probably no field that talks more about – yet knows less about – scientific paradigms and paradigm shifts (as Kuhn uses the terms) than this field of management, management theory, organization development, systems thinking and so forth.
In this field, paradigm is most often used to refer to some new way (generally the author’s) of looking at management, leadership or other aspects of organization life; and proposals for paradigm shifts – from hierarchy to self-directed, from patriarchy to matriarchy – seem to be based less in science than in theology or politics. My intention here is not to denigrate such contributions, which I believe are extremely valuable in stimulating thinking about organizational life… but to distinguish them from science.
In science, paradigms share two essential characteristics:
(i) the achievement of the creator of the paradigm “was sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adherents away from competing modes of scientific activity” and
(ii) the new paradigm “was sufficiently open-ended to leave all sorts of problems for the redefined group of practitioners to resolve”. (Kuhn 1962, p.10)
“Normal science” is what is carried on within the paradigm. Kuhn defines it as, “Research firmly based upon one or more scientific achievements, achievements that some particular scientific community acknowledges for a time as supplying the foundation for its further practice.” (Ibid.)
Is there such an acknowledged foundation in our field? I think not. On the subject, Kuhn says, “…it remains an open question what parts of social science have yet acquired such paradigms at all.” He goes on to say, “History suggests that the road to a firm research consensus is extraordinarily arduous.