This article studies the organisational view inherent in a public management and leadership development programme. Organisational views are important to study as they guide and frame the actions of the members of the organisation. In the management and leadership development programme under investigation the organisational view was a linguistic-discursive representation that was empirically inept, but which nevertheless was offered as a guide to the managers. Inspired by Clifford Geertz’s notion of religion we suggest conceptualising the presented organisational view as the deep organisation. The analysis contributes to the literature on public management and leadership development programmes by calling attention to the implicit concepts of organisation that on the one hand provide managers with the motivation and authority to carry out their daily ordering of the constantly fluctuating empirical organisation, while to some extent making managers immune to experience-based learning on the other. The notion of the deep organisation expands our understanding of the layered nature of assumptions about organisations, through which seeming contradictions can be handled. In the discussion we outline three important implications of the analysed organisational view.

本文研究了公共管理和领导力发展计划中固有的组织观点。组织观点对于研究和指导组织成员的行动非常重要。在所研究的管理和领导力发展计划中，组织观点是一种语言-语言上的表示形式，虽然凭经验是无能为力的，但仍然可以为管理者提供指导。受克利福德·盖尔茨（Clifford Geertz）宗教观念的启发，我们建议将提出的组织观点概念化为深度组织。该分析通过唤起对组织隐含概念的关注，从而为有关公共管理和领导力发展计划的文献做出了贡献，这些隐含概念一方面为管理者提供了动力和权威，使他们可以对不断变化的经验型组织进行日常管理，而对某些组织则可以这样做。另一方面使管理人员不受基于经验的学习的影响。深度组织的概念扩展了我们对组织假设的分层性质的理解，通过这种层次化的观点，可以解决似乎存在的矛盾。在讨论中，我们概述了所分析的组织观点的三个重要含义。