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Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This highly accessible text takes into account the organizational dynamics that readers are likely to have experienced and provides them with the conceptual tools for reassessing their understanding and considering how to act on their new insights. Renowned scholar Armand Lauffer shows readers how to apply organizational theories to challenges they confront at work, and to uncover other challenges they may not yet be aware of.
Organizational Culture
Organizational Culture
Dress-Down Fridays
I remember how shocked I was on first coming to this agency. At the community center where I'd worked before, we all came to work in comfortable clothes. Maybe no T-shirts, jeans, or shorts, but comfortable, like what you would wear to a Saturday night movie with friends. Here, a tie and jacket were essential for the men. No tennis shoes for women, though pants were OK if they were part of a suit. You're a professional, my supervisor told me, and you're expected to dress the part. This was back in the 1980s but it felt like the 1950s, or at least that's how I imagined it.
That was then. About 5 years later, we started “dress-down Fridays.” Staff members loved ...
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