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- Title
Learning to Live the Paradox in a Democratic Organization: A Deliberative Approach to Paradox Mindsets.
- Authors
Griffin, Martyn; King, Daniel; Reedy, Patrick
- Abstract
Paradox mindsets have been proposed as a way of increasing capacity to deal with the competing tensions that present themselves in organizational life. It has been argued that having a paradox mindset can help individuals to work creatively and productively with tensions to produce solutions. Increasingly, paradox scholars have also begun to highlight the relational element of paradox mindsets, or how we work through paradoxes with others. Less explored, however, is how individuals examine paradoxes through collective processes that help them to understand the tensions they are experiencing. This paper offers a deliberative approach to paradox mindsets that integrates individual development with the novel forms of collective deliberation that are a feature of democratic organizations (those that use collective and deliberative decision-making procedures). Based on the learning processes involved in our own experiences in setting up a democratic organization, we consider how paradoxes became more salient through collective collaboration with experienced practitioners within the field. We offer suggestions to how management education can be developed to help practitioners begin the process of learning to live with, and indeed thrive collectively in, paradoxical situations.
- Subjects
PARADOX; INDIVIDUAL development; MANAGEMENT education
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2022, Vol 21, Issue 4, p624
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amle.2020.0238