SEEING THROUGH ORGANIZATION - EXPLORING THE CONSTITUTIVE QUALITY OF SOCIAL-RELATIONS

This article reframes the relationship between people and organization to reveal the constitutive quality of social relations. Although agre eing with Karl Weick that organization emerges in interaction the auth or theoretically integrates the work of Mary Parker Follett and Boweni an family systems theorists to go beyond Weick's focus on behaviors, e xamining instead the interpersonal dynamics that fuel behavior Accordi ng to this theoretical orientation, people exist in relationship to on e another and are made different by their interdependence. The quality of their interaction thus determines the consciousness they bring to the organizing process, and with it, the nature of organization itself .