Training for transition and transformation: designing a new structure is only half the story

Richard D Boyer

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Training for transition and transformation: designing a new structure is only half the story

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Richard D Boyer. Training for Transition and Transformation: Designing a New Structure Is Only Half the Story. Columbia Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/212638b7-680a-4ed5-92c9-b6ea0f1593bb.

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Richard D Boyer

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Prospect Presbyterian Church identified burnout and a lack of volunteers as a growing problem in the congregation. Weber's bureaucracy provides a lens to explore the congregation's current organizational self-understanding. Then, the study employs Lathrop's primary symbol of assembly to design and introduce a new structure. Church members were interviewed before and after the training to assess shifts in their organizational self-understanding. The juxtaposition of the current self-understanding in 'bureaucracy' with a new metaphor of 'assembly' in both a new design and training for the new design produced increased energy, creativity and anxiety, along with a renewed focus on relationships.

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