Developing “Complicated” Understanding in Administrators
结合互补性、认知复杂性和成人发展理论，阐述如何通过管理教育项目提升管理者对组织问题的分化与整合理解，并评估其效果。
This paper develops Weick's (1979) notion of “complicated” understanding by linking it with concepts of complementarity, cognitive complexity, and adult development. The paper describes a rationale for, and design elements of, management education programs aimed at increasing complicated understanding in administrators, primarily by fostering differentiation and integration of perspectives on organizational problems. It suggests several outcomes of complicated understanding and indicates ways in which these outcomes, as well as programs aimed at producing them, can be assessed.