5.4 Collective Agency While individual agency is the foundation, the MoA emphasises that collective agency is critical for fostering lasting cultural transformation within organisations. Organisations are dynamic, interconnected systems where the behaviours of individuals ripple across the broader structure. The MoA acknowledges this complexity and promotes a bottom-up approach where collective agency emerges from the alignment of personal values and organisational goals. The next two steps therefore are: 3. What I Do Where I Am: Individuals connect their personal values with their professional roles. This step explores how their actions can either support or hinder the organisation’s broader mission, ensuring that individual agency aligns with organisational goals. 4. Who We Are: The collective narrative begins to form here, as individual visions are integrated into a shared organisational vision. This step fosters collaboration and ensures that personal contributions align with the collective purpose. The MoA recognizes that real transformation requires all members of the organisation to be active participants in shaping the collective culture. As individuals within the organisation align their personal values with the organisation’s vision, a collective sense of responsibility and shared ownership emerges, facilitating a deeper connection to the organisational mission. In this way the co-creation of a shared vision between individuals are created that, e.g. fosters inclusive decision-making processes. Systems thinking is central to this process, as it provides a lens for understanding the interconnections between individual actions and systemic outcomes Meadows (2008). The MoA leverages these insights to illustrate how collective agency can drive systemic change by fostering collaboration around shared values. As personal and collective values converge, organisations become more adaptive and resilient, able to generate multiple forms of value simultaneously. 5.5 Systemic Transformation MoA offers a pathway to systemic transformation by aligning mindset and culture within organisations. This approach promotes a culture where every individual is empowered to contribute to shaping the organisation’s values and strategies. The MoA emphasizes the agency, freedom and responsibility embedded in the collective agency of all members of the organisation. 27 5.4 Collective Agency
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