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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 Jaffes argument?
  • Can you identify limitations/problems with
    Jaffes argument or his formulation of these
    claims?

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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?

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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. Isnt it just a matter of identifying
    the definition/theory that best captures the
    complexity?
  • Why cant differences between competing
    perpectives simply be resolved by subjecting them
    to a rigorous empirical test?

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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 students 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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