Organization as free space and controlled space

Organisations are marked by contradictions: change and continuity, health a nd sickness, men and women, creativity and linearity, past and future and f reedom and restriction are only a few poles in which these contradictions a re made visible. Organisations try to give answers to these contradictions and give space for both: freedom and restriction. Here, systems and individ uals are related in mutual challenge and in permanent negotiation. It is th erefore important for management and employee to reflect on the preconditio ns for the chance of freedom and restriction. The organisation has to provi de the possibility to legitimize the 'Management of Paradox' in order to ge nerate answers which are necessary to guide change and contradiction.