Sense Making in a Small Renovation Planning Process

Abstract

Organizational sensemaking describes the reality of an organization and the organizing processes that individuals engage within that organization. Sensemaking provides a useful way to reveal the social psychological processes that contribute to organizational outcomes. It has been used by researchers to explore and explain the behaviour of individuals and groups in complex or unusual situations. Sensemaking can be effectively used as a diagnostic tool for qualitative researchers. In this paper we investigate the process of sensemaking in a small renovation planning project in Finland. This paper describes the use of sensemaking as a tool for documenting and analysing the planning processes which took place during the small renovation project.