Organizational Behavior Ch 2

practice

A meaning driven engagement with others in the context of everyday life. Practice is a process of habitually doing meaningful things with others.

Negotiation of Meaning

A constantly ongoing social process involving participation and reification, through which people come to understand, classify, and value the world around them.

participation

A process of taking part in some activity or enterprise with other people.

reification

Giving an abstract concept a name and then treating it as though it were a concrete, tangible object. To reify is to make something real which is not otherwise tangible.

explicit knowledge

the more objective, rational, and technical types of knowledge; knowledge that can be easily recorded and disseminated en masse.

tacit knowledge

Knowledge that cannot be codified because it is embodied. It concerns knowing how to do a certain task and can be acquired only through active participation in that task

Complex Responsive Processes

A theory of human thought and communication, which emphasizes human existence as mutating patterns of social engagement that are simultaneously dynamic and persistent.

boundary

a reified line that marks the end of an organization; determines what is inside and outside of an organization.

organizational identity

The perception of the organization as created by the habitual actions of the people within the organization. It communicates to members and others what they organization is and what they can expect it to do.

Whorf Hypothesis

the hypothesis that the words and structures of a language can affect how the speakers of that language conceptualize or think about the world

social animals

Beings that are always and only engaged in acts of relating to the world around them.