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Moving away from the common/traditional focus on studying organizations from a distance, this highly engaging book introduces the idea of studying them from the inside. Inside Organizations: Exploring Organizational Experiences guides placement students, and any student undertaking part-time work in an organization, through ‘insider inquiry’, helping them to develop key reflexive and critical thinking skills for their future careers. . It encourages you to pay attention to what goes on in organizations, to question what you experience and ultimately to make sense of how organizations function. , helping you to develop key reflexive and critical thinking skills for your future careers. This book is ideal for students on programmes with a placement or internship element such as business and management, nursing and health, and education and is especially useful to those doing reflective journals and essays.
Being Inside Organizations
Being Inside Organizations
Picture a typical day in your organization. You are doing your work, whatever that may be – sitting at a desk working at a computer or on your feet serving customers. You observe what is going on around you and you hear what your colleagues say to one another as they engage in the work and in casual chitchat. Does anything puzzle you about what is going on? Do you notice when there seem to be contradictions between what is said and what is done? Does it seem to you that a problem was being sidestepped by how a manager responded to a query? Do you think that an individual is bullying in his/her manner and getting away with ...
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