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.