Inventing the Future Understanding individual and organizational strategies in dealing with change

This book represents a qualitatively based analysis to explain individual and organizational adaptive strategies emerging in conditions of significant organizational flux. The approach known as meta-ethnography was employed to analyze behavioral phenomena of an organization in dealing with change. The analysis revealed six individual strategy themes and seven organizational strategy themes or metaphors describing how individuals and organizations should absorb change whilst maintaining their effective performances. These themes provide frameworks for understanding how and why individuals and organizations behave as they do during periods of flux and transition.Re-analyzing the themes, it was concluded that all strategies were basically progressed toward the attainment of a new level of efficiency and survival: inventing the future.