organizzeeee ya organization
In this chapter it talked about cultural approach to organization, the organization that I am going to use is our Baylor basketball team. On a basketball team, there are roughly 12 players. On our team, we not only have 12 players but we are all from 5 different states. To know that we are from 5 different states, is to also know that with that comes different backgrounds and different cultures. That is hard on its own, in order to gel we must understand each other’s backgrounds, which is also known as our webs according to the chapter. In order to perform the act of untangling one’s webs we needed to play team bonding games and get to know each other!
At the beginning of every chapter, there is a little story or scenario, that is where I got all of my quotes from this week. I felt that the describing at the beginning was enough for the whole chapter. It definitely described it well. In the first paragraph, Griffin et. al. defined culture as, “shared meaning, shared understanding, shared sensemaking,” (237). In the same paragraph Griffin et. al. stated, “in order to travel across the strands toward the center of the web, an outsider must discover the common interpretations that hold the web together,” (237). A couple of paragraphs down, Griffin et. al. talks about communication by saying, “that process is communication. It is communication that ‘creates and constitutes the taken-for-granted reality of the world,” (237).
This one was pretty tough to find a connection for, that’s why I kind of stayed on the first page. I didn’t really understand the chapter sadly. IN the quotes that I did make out, it seemed to connect to the idea of a team, and how we don’t really know anything about each other when we get here. The first quote kind of emphasizes the whole idea that with different people come different cultures. In the second quote, it just showed that we need to get to know a person by getting to know their culture and what holds them together. Finally, the last quote emphasizes communication as the main way of figuring out someone’s webs. Which goes a long way in our team bonding skills and getting to know each other.