“Managing Organization Change” Customized AIT Training Program For the National Family Planning Coordinating Board of Indonesia
A session with
Dr. Prof. B.K. Passi
Prasena Think Tank
12 December 2002
Three broad questions
What is Learning
What is Organization
What is Learning Organization

Popular concept of system
Input
Process
output

What is systems thinking
What is a system?
What is thinking?
What is systems thinking?

We need to learn about
Learning
Organization
People
Knowledge
Technology

Learning organization
Personal
Mastery
Mental
Models
Shared
Vision
Team
Learning
Systems
Thinking

System is complementary whole like Yin and Yang
Being complementary and alternative, they are not dissociable.
System is a Whole always

System of tap water: who is deciding : you or water level ?
Organizational Behavior: Conflicts in Organizations
Levels of Conflict
Intrapersonal Conflict
Interpersonal Conflict
Intragroup Conflict
Intergroup Conflict
Intraorganizational Conflict
Interorganizational Conflict

Organizational Behavior Conflict in Organizations
Interpersonal Conflict Management
Force
Withdrawal
Smoothing
Compromise
Mediation and Arbitration
Superordinate Goals
Problem Solving
Dialogue

Importance of ‘Dialogue’
Lecturing
ONE-WAY
Communication

Debate
Two-way
Communication
It teaches fighting

Discussion
Multi-way communication
Take decision by voting

Dialogue is constructing
Dialogue is art of listening. Here people learn to listen to learn not only words but all facets of the presence of others in their context
Dialogue is exploring for construction not an agreement

Dialogue is checking assumptions
Your own assumptions
And others assumption

Telling
Dictating: “Here’s what I say, and never mind Why” ( dysfunctional )
Asserting: “Here’s want I say, and here’s want I say it.”
Explaining: “Here’s how the world works and why I can see it that why.”
Generating
Skillful discussion: (Balancing advocacy and inquiry) genuinely curious makes reasoning explicit asks others about assumptions without being critical or accusing)
Dialogue: suspending all assumptions creating a “container” in which collective thinking can emerge
Politicking: giving the impression of balancing advocacy and inquiry, while being close-minded (dysfunctional)
Observing
Bystanding: Making comments which pertain to the group process, but not to content.
Sensing: Watching the conversation flow without saying much, but keenly aware of all that transpires.
Withdrawing: Mentally checking out of the room, and not paying attention. (dysfunctional)

Asking
Interrogating: “Why can’t you see that your point of view is wrong?” (dysfunctional)
Clarifying: “What is the question we are trying to answer?”
Interviewing: Exploring others’ points of view, and the reasons behind them.

Special rules of dialogue
Circular arrangements; not rows and column type
Agenda
Chairperson
Language
Decisions

Personal mastery creative tension in rubber band
Personal mastery beliefs, reality, vision
Conscious and unconscious mind it is like iceberg

Mental Models: you and around you
Shared Vision evolves
Personal visions: variation
Shared Vision: fully aligned
Vision by all
Team coherence and alignment

 

Managing Implementation
Vision-Mission-Implementation
Tools: groupware
Face to face, whiteboards
Email, conference, chat, other methods of using LAN, & internet,
Web, archives
Dance of growth & limits
Dance: dual play of :

Growing process: improve reinforcers (20% solution)

Limiting processes: remove constraints (80% solution)

Knowledge of systems’ thinking is power
Management of systems is achieved by

Bringing changes outside
and
Changes inside yourself

Assign best people for best ideas rather to difficult ideas
What is Management ?

Management’s Functions