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| Preface | p. vii |
| Making Sense of Organizations | |
| Introduction: The Power of Reframing | p. 3 |
| Simple Ideas, Complex Organizations | p. 23 |
| The Structural Frame | |
| Getting Organized | p. 45 |
| Structure and Restructuring | p. 71 |
| Organizing Groups and Teams | p. 99 |
| The Human Resource Frame | |
| People and Organizations | p. 119 | ... MORE
| Improving Human Resource Management | p. 139 |
| Interpersonal and Group Dynamics | p. 165 |
| The Political Frame | |
| Power, Conflict, and Coalition | p. 191 |
| The Manager as Politician | p. 211 |
| Organizations as Political Arenas and Political Agents | p. 229 |
| The Symbolic Frame | |
| Organizational Symbols and Culture | p. 251 |
| Culture in Action | p. 279 |
| Organization as Theater | p. 293 |
| Improving Leadership Practice | |
| Integrating Frames for Effective Practice | p. 311 |
| Reframing in Action: Opportunities and Perils | p. 327 |
| Reframing Leadership | p. 341 |
| Reframing Change in Organizations: Training, Realigning, Negotiating, and Grieving | p. 373 |
| Reframing Ethics and Spirit | p. 397 |
| Bringing It All Together: Change and Leadership in Action | p. 411 |
| Epilogue: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership | p. 435 |
| The Best of Organizational Studies: Scholars' Hits and Popular Best-Sellers | p. 439 |
| References | p. 445 |
| The Authors | p. 481 |
| Name Index | p. 483 |
| Subject Index | p. 494 |
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Lee G. Bolman holds the Marion Bloch Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri?Kansas City. He consults worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities, and schools. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Terrence E. Deal is the retired Irving R. Melbo Clinical Professor at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. He now writes and makes wine in San Luis Obispo, California. He is the coauthor of sixteen books, including the best-selling Corporate Cultures (with A. A. Kennedy, 1982) and Managing the Hidden Organization (with W. A. Jenkins, 1994). He lives in San Luis Obispo, California.