Choose a company and identify a current change in their business strategy and evaluate a current public issue about which “something must be done.”
In relation to the change issue, think about and write what sense-making changes might need to be enacted and how you would go about doing this. Then, design a mind map as the appendix, visually assessing this in terms of the eight (8) elements of the sense-making framework suggested by Helms Mills and as set out in Table 9.7 (located in Chapter 9 of the text book: Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach textbook).
- Sensemaking and identity construction
- Social sense-making
- Extracted cues of sensemaking
- Ongoing sense-making
- Retrospection
- Plausibility
- Enactment
- Projective sense-making
• Address the following questions based on your mind map:
o Which ones did you believe you might have the most/least control over, and why?
o What implications does this have for adopting a sense-making approach to organizational change?
o Prepare explanations for each of the 8 elements based on your mind map
• Identifies all the important concepts and shows an understanding of the relationships among them (the impact on the social, economic, market, etc.) .
• Key ideas stand out through images and keywords which clearly and dynamically show understanding.
• Effectively uses color, codes, or links to meaningfully clarify connections for all aspects of MindMap.
• The main idea is supported by details, the categories make sense (external and internal about the change), and the reader is able to follow and understand what is written.
• Create the figure as the appendix, reference the appendix figure in your main writeup text
