Week 2 - Blog 3: Ch 4 – Retrospective Sense Making

Week 2 - Blog 3: Ch 4 – Retrospective Sense Making

It is all too often when I have seen a person act first and then later examines their actions in an attempt to explain the meaning (pg. 115). I find this to be a great observation of Weick’s because not only would I apply this concept in organizational instances in the work place, but also in life. His seven “properties of sense making:” identity construction, retrospection, enactment, socialization, continuation, extracted cues, and plausibility are all the same things that one goes through when growing up and trying to find his or her identity, or when one is going through a mid life crisis. Of course there are those who only act with a predetermined plan, but in the end I really don’t think it makes a difference because one will always reflect on his or her actions, predetermined or not. Or, at least they should. I resonate with Weick’s seven principles only because it too is what I have observed in society and in the work place.