A New Paradigm of Organizational Transformation: Enacting Wholeness Praxis in the Oneness of Problem and Possibility |
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Authors: | MingFen Li KingKong Lin |
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Institution: | (1) School of Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan;(2) Sante Fe International Consulting Company, Taipei, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | In view of the emerging complicated global problems intertwined with the degradation of the natural environment, we need to
probe the nature of the problems caused by human thinking and action in order to find new possibilities and opportunities
for our future. In this paper the authors analyze the ‘problem maze’ humans create to depict the nature of organizational
problems across public, private, and the third sectors. In order to cultivate the capacity to envision the possibilities inherent
to organizational problems, we approach organizational transformation from the perspectives of epistemology, ontology, methodology,
and practicalogy. We also propose four approaches to organizational transformation, namely involutionary, evolutionary, revolutionary,
and, holo-volutionary transformation. We expect that by highlighting the oneness of problem and possibility, and by characterizing
“wholeness praxis” of organizational transformation, we would probably offer a new path of sustainable organizational development.
We also use three social enterprises to demonstrate how social and organizational problems might be transformed into possibilities
and opportunities. |
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