As organizações são as conversas que decorrem dentro delas

"Given the dynamic quality of organizing, it is tough to locate just what “the organization” consists of. To make it easier, think about organizational communication and the conversations that embody much of it. Think of those distributed conversations as the site where organization emerges. And think of the things that people talk about at those sites as the textual surfaces from which the organization’s substance is read. If we set up organizing this way, then organizations are talked into existence (sites), they gain their substance from the content of the discussions that are produced there (surfaces), and they “become” the organization when macro actors summarize and speak on behalf of a sample of these conversations. These conversations create organizational reality; they don’t just represent an entity that is already there."

As organizações são as conversas que decorrem dentro delas ...

Que tipo de conversas decorrem dentro da sua organização? Qual a tendência principal?

Um outro trecho interessante sobre as organizações é este, talvez um pouco irónico:

"An alternative perspective [to that of the rational organization] on organizations holds that information is limited and serves largely to justify decisions or positions already taken; goals, preferences and effectiveness criteria are problematic and conflicting; organizations are loosely linked to their social environments; the rationality of various designs and decisions is inferred after the fact to make sense out of things that have already happened; organizations are coalitions of various interests; organization designs are frequently unplanned and are basically responses to contests among interests for control over the organization; and organization designs are in part ceremonial. This alternative perspective attempts explicitly to recognize the social nature of organizations." 

Primeira citação retirada de "Managing the Unexpected - Sustained Performance in a Complex World" de Karl E. Weick e Kathleen M. Sutcliffe.

Segunda citação retirada de “Who Gets Power—And How They Hold on to It: A Strategic-Contingency Model of Power,” de  Gerald R. Salancik e Jeffrey Pfeffer, publicado em Organizational Dynamics 5, no. 3 (1978): 3–21, 18–19.