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More Bolman and Deal

Bolman and Deal's four frameworks:

• Structural Framework - Social architect whose leadership style is analysis and design - focus on structure, strategy, environment, implementation, experimentation, and adaptation.
• Human Resource Framework - Catalyst and servant whose leadership style is support, advocate, and empowerment - visible and accessible; they empower, increase participation, support, share information, and move decision making down into the organization.
• Political Framework - Advocate, whose leadership style is coalition and building - clarify what they want and what they can get; they assess the distribution of power and interests; they build linkages to other stakeholders; use persuasion first, then use negotiation and coercion only if necessary.
• Symbolic Framework - Prophet, whose leadership style is inspiration, view organizations as a stage or theater to play certain roles and give impressions; these leaders use symbols to capture attention; they try to frame experience by providing plausible interpretations of experiences; they discover and communicate a vision.

Bolman and Deal

• Structural
  goals
  specialized roles
  formal relationships
  division of labor
  rules, policies, procedures, and hierarchies
  Problems arise when structure does not fit situation
• Human Resources
  extended family
  feelings, prejudices, skills, and limitations
  tailor org to people
• Political
  arenas
  contests
  jungles
  interests compete for limited resources
  conflict is rampant
  bargaining, negotiation, coercion, and compromise
  Problems arise when power is concentrated in wrong place
  or when so broadly dispersed nothing gets done.
• Symbolic
  cultural and social anthropology
  tribes, theater, or carnivals
  cultures on rituals, ceremonies, stories, heroes, myths
  org is actors
• Integrating the Four Frames
  Multiframe thinking requires movement beyond narrow mechanical thinking.