Can vision motivate planning action?
Can vision motivate planning action?
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愿景能否激发规划行动?
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2006
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J. Michela
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R. Shipley;J. Michela
IntroductionMany planning exercises today begin with visioning or they express a vision atsome stage. There are jurisdictions that actually require a vision statement in plans.There are no exact agreed-upon definitions, but generally a vision describes adesired future and can take a simple form or can require an entire, complexdocument to describe. However, there has been very little critical study or follow-up evaluation of plans to establish the efficacy of visions and to examine visioningfrom either a practice or theoretical perspective. Do visions actually exert amotivating influence? Here we preview the results from what may be among thefirst attempts to conduct controlled experimentation aimed at understandingwhether and how visions have their intended effects in planning. The experimentsfocused on how visions are communicated and acted upon and draw on a numberof theories and approaches from organizational psychology.Official plans at all levels of many organizations and governments call for theexpression of a vision. In some planning jurisdictions, for example in the UK,vision statements can be a statutory requirement (Roberts, 1996; Peel & Lloyd,2005). Very few planners have not heard of these words, but what do the termsvision and visioning really mean, where did they originate, do they actually helpus reach planning goals, and if so, how do they work?Here we set out first to describe briefly when and how visioning came intoplanning practice and what are its roots. Next we will explain what plannersseem to be doing when they undertake visioning and create visions and we willdescribe some of the problems that appear to be occurring in practice. We willthen provide some theoretical analysis that might help explain how vision andvisioning function as motivating stimuli in planning. For a better understandingof the roots of visioning practice, and for analytical approaches, we will look tothe fields of social and organizational psychology. Finally we will outline theresults from what may be among the first attempts to conduct controlledexperimentation on visioning in the planning milieu. The experiments focusedon how visions are communicated by presenters and engaged by members ofthe community receiving the communication. This work shows that seeminglyminor variations in what is presented in a vision can have a demonstrable