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The work of Prof. Karl E. Weick is known to many safety people but often not in the deepest sense of his philosophy or complexity of his ideas. Some may have downloaded his researc...
Prof. Karl E. Weick died on 21 May 2026. He was indeed a pioneer and scholar of distinction in the Social Psychology of Risk. We have been studying the work of Weick for many yea...
This comes from Weick’s paper: Arrested Sensemaking: Typified Suppositions Sink the El Faro (p.16) (2022) Sensemaking is an imbalance between continuity and discontinuity. Being-in...
As the group prepares for the workshops on Weick and HROing, we seek to understand the philosophy of Prof. Karl E. Weick and how his perspective on risk works. Most of what Weick e...
Karl E. Weick introduced a number of concepts into thinking about the Social Psychology of Organising that have significance for Safety. Some of Weick’s ideas are unknown to Safety...
Most of the scholars and philosophers that inform the work of SPoR hold to a sense of dialectic in knowledge and experience. Karl E. Weick is no exception. The idea of dialectic ca...
Weick was years ahead of the game when it comes to a discussion of organising. What he discussed would be later articulated by Fuchs (Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity) in the...
One of the beauties of Weick’s clock is, he turns it into a mandala, to show the dialectic between tensions in organising. He states (p.36) (The Social Psychology of Organising): F...
One of the creative things about The Social Psychology of Organising is Weick’s consciousness of metaphor, his semiotic illustrations and linguistic turn. We see this in how Weick...
Registrations for the Weick and HROing workshops for June have now closed. Weick’s definition of organising evolved over the years. In 1969 is was: ‘the resolving of equivocality...
In Weick’s first book (1979 second edition), he begins his discussion on organising based around a selection of narratives and a ‘grook’ (p.14). A grook (pronounced ‘gruk’) is an a...
In our continuing discussion of Weick we can now explore one of Weick’s semiotics, a clock for visualising ‘commensurate complexity’. This is based on Thorngate’s postulate, that i...
Weick uses three poems in critical positions in his book The Social Psychology of Risk (https://archive.org/details/socialpsychology0000weic_2nded), including his opening grook (ht...
In the last of this series on Prof. Karl E. Weick we present his thinking on causal loop thinking. All in preparation for those who are joining us on the free workshop series on We...
One of the strengths of SPoR is a Transdisciplinary approach to knowing. This means being open to disciplines often not given validity in the risk and safety sector. To be Transdis...
Registrations for the free workshops on Prof. Karl Weick and HROing close today. The workshops will focus primarily of Weick’s foundational philosophy outlined in his first book. W...
Following on from the very successful workshops on following-leading (https://safetyrisk.net/reflections-on-following-leading-in-risk-workshops/ ), we are happy to offer a series o...
Why the behaviors operators repeat daily matters more than the values leaders define on paper.
Originally posted on August 25, 2016 @ 9:03 PM The Challenge of Social Sensemaking in Risk Social Sensemaking is available now and can be ordered by clicking on this LINK Why shoul...
Loose and tight coupling are metaphors Weick uses to explain ways of organising. Interestingly, it depends on context to... The post Loose Coupling, Tight Coupling and Dialectic Co...
Organizational resilience is people‑driven, built through culture, psychological safety, and leadership presence, not just operational preparedness.
“It was on my third ship that I came across the risk of enclosed space for the first time as a cadet. So, what happened, a very short story if I can share that Nippin and it still...
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