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Critically discuss the following statement with reference to the concept of reframing organizations.“A manager’s frame of reference is his/her most enabling asset”

Modern Organizations become more and more difficult to manage. How does a manger manage an organization in perfect way? What is the most enabling asset for a manager to manage an organization? A manager’s correct frame of reference is considered as his/her most enabling asset. What is a manager’s correct frame of reference for managing an organization?

Firstly, the manager should understand what the properties of organizations are. Bolman and Deal (Bolman and Deal 1997, p22-23) suggest, the organizations are complex, surprising, deceptive and ambiguous as the following:

Properties of organizations
• Organizations are complex. The main reasons of this complexity are people and the difficulty to understand and predict their behavior. In addition, the interaction between and among individuals makes relationship more complicated....

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