organizational analyses 2500 Problem Solving Case Study and Proposal Report
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ReframingOrganisations-TutorialGuide.pptxOrganisational Analysis Reframing Organisations
Tutorial Guide
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Reflection
Did you all produce the same functional and data model for your classes?
Surely, if you take an objectivist view, all of you should produce the same solutions?
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Where does innovation come from?
How does group innovation occur?
How many of you captured the process as well as the end result?
Why do organisational members become entrenched in their views?
Reflection
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RMIT University
Truth is objective and independent of our knowing
Even if we are not there, the truth exists
Through positivist epistemology, we discover the same version of truth
All of us have equal access to the truth
Depiction of Functionalist Framing of Organisations
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You answered the Question about the origins of innovation
Where do multiple interpretations come from?
An Alternative Framing of Organisations
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"All up today, there is about 6000 Victorians going to lose their jobs because Toyota is shutting down," the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union's Dave Smith told reporters.
ACTU secretary Sally McManus said the car industry was a crucial part of the Australia's advanced manufacturing industry and Toyota workers were "betrayed" by the federal government's failure to value the sector.
Consider this Context: Job Losses
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Bill Shorten says the loss of the auto industry "did not have to happen", but the move was forced when the government stopped financially supporting vehicle markers.
The Government has a role and should sustain the car manufacturing industry (workers)
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Malcolm Turnbull says car manufacturers were leaving in response to changing markets, not a lack of subsidies, valued at about $7 billion since 2001.
The Government is Not Responsible: The Car Industry has Not Responded to Competition
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Can we look at situations with only one perspective?
Reminder: Authentic Assessment
Allow a range of outcomes – no one right answer
In your class, we use the perspectives, or paradigms to facilitate more than one answer
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Reflect on Assignment 1
These are four different “ontological” positions!
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Higher Plane of Thinking
These are four different “ontological” positions!
This is Meta-Theory
Assignment 1 was a way to train your analytical skills
You have to ascertain ontology from:
What data was collected
How data was collected
How data was interpreted
How findings was presented
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Discuss these Ontologies
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Reflections on Ontology
We cannot teach ontology by deconstructing only one
Ontology – are the four different pictures we discussed
Ontology – as the understanding of a “higher plane” of thinking means understanding how people could be focused on one plane of thinking
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Teaching Ontology
It may be said that we are most familiar with the “functional” approach, or objectivist approach
Discuss: Why is it so difficult to describe “functionalism”?
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Update the diagram you developed
How is data collected?
How is data interpreted?
How are findings supported?
How is the method defended?
How is data collected?
How is data interpreted?
How are findings supported?
How is the method defended?
How is data collected?
How is data interpreted?
How are findings supported?
How is the method defended?
How is data collected?
How is data interpreted?
How are findings supported?
How is the method defended?
What Ontology is this?
What Ontology is this?
What Ontology is this?
What Ontology is this?
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The Word View – only Objective?
Discuss:
What type of argument are you likely to be swayed by?
Is this context dependent?
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Discuss the project brief
What is your progress?
Have you done your literature review?
Are you continually reflecting on the literature?
Have you discussed your interview questions with your tutor?
Have you interviewed each other?
How is your solution proposal developing?
Are you clarifying with your class leader?
Assignment 2
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Self-Reflection
What would you write in your personal learning diary, or are you thinking about how you would update your CV?
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