Importance Of Personal Experience In The Organisational Setting

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Personal experience in the organisational setting
From the above description of appreciative inquiry, comes the most striking shift from the early industrial approaches to organisational management. The suggestion of collecting people’s stories shows the valuing of personal experience in the organisational development paradigm. Nilsson (2007) writes of the development of the concept of self-expression in the romantic era, “the unique and subjective flowering of inner exploration, as a central personal, social, and spiritual good” (p. 8). The shift from the traditional suppression of this expression in the workplace (Brown, 2013), to a modern landscape which places value in it, is of great importance in the context of an organisation engaging …show more content…

Society needs to build the capacity for repetition—over and over again, forever. (Westley, 2013, p. 3)
The elements of this resilient system are a self-organizing approach, the ability to withstand disruption and retain organisational identity, and a flexibility tied to continuously growing the learning capacity within the organisation (Moore & Westley, 2011). A highly contextually relevant quotation from Westley (2013), relating to this resilience, covers one primary basis for an organisational capacity for social innovation.
Of course, “managing for emergence” is easier in some cultures than others. Some cultures allow ideas to move freely and quickly, combining with other ideas in the kind of bricolage necessary for innovation. Studies of resilience at the community, organizational, and individual levels suggest that these same qualities characterize organizations and communities that are resilient to crisis and collapse. The characteristics that these organizations and communities share are low hierarchy, adequate diversity, an emphasis on learning over blame, room for experimentation, and mutual respect. These are all qualities that support general resilience. If they are attended to, the capacity for social innovation will also increase, creating a virtuous cycle that in turn builds the resilience of the entire society. (p.

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