Background To Frameworks
Introduction
Most frameworks have the following 5 components:
"...1. Planning and preparing the organisation for change
2. Crafting a strategic vision for the change
3. Implementing the change
4. Reviewing the effectiveness of the change and impact on employees and processes
5. Reinforcing the change through routines, rewards and recognition..."
Jessie Strongitharm, 2022
Theories of Organisation
Need to understand what type of organisation you are working with when selecting or developing frameworks :
| Organisation | As group | As agent | As structure | As system | As culture | As politics |
| Theories | Social psychology | Instrumentalism; management theory | Sociology; theory of bureaucracy | Cybermetrics; information theory | Anthropology: ethno-methodology; phenomenology | Political theory; theory of socio-political movements |
| Detail | - organisation as a collection of people with collective identity - observe group phenomena - organisational psychology |
- organisation as instruments for achieving social purpose - organisation, viewed as a subject with its own sentiment, active, intelligent & - purposeful features |
- organisation follows the org. chart, ie and ordered array of role-box is connected by lines represent flow of information, work & authority | - organisation as a self-regulating identity; with complexity is maintained;certain essential constancy through cycles | - organisation and small societies in which people create shared meanings, symbols, rites & cognitive schemes which allow them to create and maintain interactions amongst themselves |
-organisation as politics (governments); as interplay of competing interests and associated power; organisation as interest groups which competing with each other for control |
| Concepts | Organisational development | Process improvement | Management by objectives | Socio-tech systems | Corporate culture inventory | Game theory |
(source: Chris Argyris et al as quoted by The Canadian Institute of Cultural Affairs, 2012)
Frameworks can vary from simple (see below) to very complex (see below)
Simple
Complex
(source: Monash University, 2024)