BHS402 Leadership & Management in Healthcare
The Symbolic Frame
What are the five suppositions of the symbolic frame?
The five suppositions of the symbolic frame are:
-What is more important is not what happens but what it means.
– Events and actions have different interpretations based on people’s experience or behavior, they might experience life differently.
– Facing uncertainty and ambiguity, people will create symbols to resolve confusion, find direction or a path, and seek hope and faith differently in life.
-The events and processes are usually more important for what is expressed than for what is produced. On the other hand, finding what someone is passionate about, different myths, ceremonies, rituals, family history/culture.
-Culture can help unite people and accomplishing desired ends.
What four major roles do ceremonies serve?
The four major roles that ceremonies serve according to the book, “How Great Leaders Think” are:
Socialization
Stabilization
Reassure
Convey messages to external clients or supporters.
In most cases this will help bring organizations and society together as one.
What is the value of stories to high-performing groups such as the Eagle Group?
The value of stories to high-performing groups such as the Eagle Group, is to show that the stories can keep the traditions going and alive, some of the stories can be examples to our daily lives and also be a guide to our behaviors and how we can fix that. Stories come from history, values, dignity, and facilitate the formation of different background identity.
