Mindful Management in Government Organization
Government organizations and agencies are expected to clearly state their vision, mission, values and to approximate where they intend to be or in other words what goals and objectives that they intend to accomplish both in the long- and short-term. Mindful management is investigated in this brief study to determine the efficacy of its use in managing the governmental organization.
Reliability Themes in Mindful Management
The work of Weick and Sutcliffe (2008) reports that mindful management involves specific reliability themes, which are stated as follows:
(1) Mindful organizing lies at the heart of reliable functioning.
(2) Complexity is inherent in reliable organizing.
(3) Preoccupation with failure equals preoccupation with learning. (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2008)
Mindful Management Techniques
Mindful management techniques involve:
(1) Tracking small failures;
(2) Resisting oversimplification
(3) Remaining sensitive to operations;
(4) Maintaining capabilities for resilience; an d
(5) Taking advantage of shifting locations of expertise. (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2008)
III. Reliable Performance
Reliable performance is stated to be defined "relative to failure." (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2008) Reliability is stated to refer to that which can be counted on to not fail while doing what it is expected to do. The role of failure in reliable performance is specified by three questions stated as follows:
(1) What do people count on?
(2) What do people expect from the things they count on?
(3) In what ways can the things people count on fail? (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2008)
It is reported that answers to these three questions give one clues about what it is that could go wrong and what it is that one does not want to go wrong. (Weick and Sutcliffe, paraphrased) It is stated that the key words in all three questions is "what one can count on, not who. Reliable performance is a system issue, not an individual issue. Failures are connected. Small early failures steer subsequent events toward outcomes that no one expected." (Weick and Sutcliffe, 2008)
IV. Three Specific Concerns of Managers in Regards to Failure
Managers are concerned with failure in three specific...
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