Prisioneiros de justificações

Em "Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2 - The Impermanent Organization" de Karl E. Weick encontrei este trecho:

"The BRI [Bristol Royal Infirmary] culture is one in which people share the practice “of explaining or justifying . . . mediocre or poor results on the basis of case severity rather than directing attention to producing better results.” The prevailing explanation for bad results at BRI is not “we are doing something wrong and need to improve,” but rather that these are “bad patients . . . and we are doing our best.”

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Cultural entrapment means the process by which people get locked into lines of action, subsequently justify those lines of action, and search for confirmation that they are doing what they should be doing. When people are caught up in this sequence, they overlook important cues that things are not as they think they are."

 E porque é que as pessoas ficam prisioneiras destas práticas?

"“Commitment binds an individual to his or her behavior. The behavior becomes an undeniable and unchangeable aspect of the person’s world, and when he makes sense of the environment, behavior is the point on which constructions or interpretations are based. This process can be described as a rationalizing process, in which behavior is rationalized by referring to features of the environment which support it. Such sensemaking also occurs in a social context in which norms and expectations affect the rationalizations developed for behavior, and this can be described as a process of legitimating behavior. People develop acceptable justifications for their behavior as a way of making such behavior meaningful and explainable.”"