Helpful Ways to Use and Understand the Four Frames

Conceptual perspective: Bolman & Deal, Reframing Organizations
 
qStructural: organization as machine
qHuman resource: organization as family
qPolitical: organization as jungle
qSymbolic: organization as theater or temple
 

A. To Understand Organizations
Assumptions of the Four Frames

Four Frames of  Leadership 

B. To Diagnose Organization

Examples: Open Ended Questions to Ask by Frame when Diagnosing an Organization

Example: OFS Student Survey Questionnaire

C. To Lead Organization

Leadership Identified as a "Framed" Set of Competencies