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Turn Your Gaze into the Chrystal Ball: A Symposium on Prospective Sensemaking

2025· article· en· W4416007065 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueAcademy of Management Proceedings · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicFlow Experience in Various Fields
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSensemakingContext (archaeology)PreparednessFutures contractCognitive reframingAdaptabilityProspective memory

Abstract

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This symposium addresses the emerging concept of prospective sensemaking, focusing on how individuals can envision and prepare for uncertain futures. It involves the process by which individuals project themselves into future scenarios, interpreting how they might react to anticipated events (Stigliani & Ravasi, 2012). With today’s organizational environments characterized by rapid change and volatility (Ashford et al., 2018), understanding how people make sense of and mentally simulate future possibilities is important to actively prepare them for unexpected events (Seligman et al., 2013). Here, prospective sensemaking allows individuals to ‘pre-experience’ possible futures, fostering adaptability and resilience in unpredictable contexts (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007; Rosness et al., 2016). The symposium consists of four distinct presentations that offer a unified exploration of prospective sensemaking across career and organizational contexts, combining theoretical advancements, innovative methodologies, and practical applications. In general, the symposium aims to enhance our understanding of prospective sensemaking by: (1) Offering new theoretical insights into prospective sensemaking; showcasing empirical studies that reveal how individuals may actively prepare for future career events and organizational change; (2) providing actionable insights for career counseling and organizations, aimed at supporting individuals’ preparedness for unexpected futures; and (3) discussing possible methodologies that help us to research and teach prospective sensemaking. Prospective Sensemaking in Contemporary Careers Context Author: Mostafa Ayoobzadeh; Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Author: Melika Shirmohammadi; University of Houston Author: Mina Beigi; University of Southampton Integrating the Past and Future Self in Leadership and Career Author: Jon P. Briscoe; Northern Illinois University Building Sustainable Futures Brick by Brick: Exploring Prospective Sensemaking Through LEGO® Author: Yoy Bergs; Nyenrode Business University Author: Pascale Peters; Nyenrode Business University Author: Xander Lub; University of Applied Sciences Utrecht Author: Robert Blomme; Nyenrode Business University “I Saw That Coming:” Employees’ Prospective Sensemaking Stories of Organizational Change Author: Annemiek Van Der Schaft; Radboud University Nijmegen Author: Omar Solinger; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Author: Xander Lub; University of Applied Sciences Utrecht Author: W Van Olffen; Author: Beatrice Isabella Johanna Maria Van Der Heijden; Radboud University Nijmegen

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.801
Threshold uncertainty score0.838

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Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it