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Week 1 Reading Issues Jaffe (1)

Week 1 Reading Issues Jaffe (1). `Everywhere we look, organizations play some role in shaping social structures and influencing social change’ Jaffee, p. xv What does Jaffe mean by `social structures’? Can you illustrate Jaffe’s argument?

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Week 1 Reading Issues Jaffe (1)

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  1. Week 1 Reading Issues Jaffe (1) • `Everywhere we look, organizations play some role in shaping social structures and influencing social change’ Jaffee, p. xv • What does Jaffe mean by `social structures’? • Can you illustrate Jaffe’s argument? • Can you identify limitations/problems with Jaffe’s argument or his formulation of these claims?

  2. Week 1 Reading Issues Jaffe (2) • `If humans were passive objects, rather than active subjects, they would readily conform to organizational dictates. Because humans are neither passive or objects, an endless series of organization theories and management strategies have been developed to explain and mobilise the human factor. The history and evolution of organization theory is heavily shaped by this tension’ • How are the concepts of identity and insecurity relevant for exploring this tension? • Is it to helpful or potentially misleading to refer to the `human factor’?

  3. Week 1 Reading Issues Jaffe (3) • `A single widely accepted definition of organization is difficult to establish because of the complex nature of the object of study and the multiple perspectives that inform organizational analysis’ • How much does `complexity’ account for this difficulty. Isn’t it just a matter of identifying the definition/theory that best captures the complexity? • Why can’t differences between competing perpectives simply be resolved by subjecting them to a rigorous empirical test?

  4. Week 1 Reading Issues Knights and Willmott • `Information [exemplified by the blockbusting, comprehensive textbook] is readily retrieved and regurgitated before being appraised by teachers, who use the contents of the textbook as a benchmark when they evaluate the completeness of the student’s knowledge. In contrast, understanding is developed in the course of making meaningful connections between pieces of information and interpreting their relevance to a particular human endeavour’ (p. 11) • Can you illustrate this point of view? • How is understanding/learning rather than information acquisition best enabled and supported in your experience?

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