Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Organizing difference in organizations
In chapter 7 they introduce the idea that a significant goal of many organizations is to regulate and control their members identities. Alvesson and Wilmort , two European scholars that it is important that an individual or a group within an organization plays a role so they have a identity. Their are nine ways they practice giving organizations identities, but one that stood out in particular was "providing a specific vocabulary of motives". Coming into an organization you want everybody to have the same motives, so if your a car sales man, you would want to be very social, caring to what the customer wants and friendly. Everybody on that cars salesman team will know also that they each have a role on how to act and also meet a certain quota of how many cars to sell.
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I do believe as well that organizations provide a specific vocabulary of motives. For example the restaurant industry looks for very social, friendly, outgoing people that can communicate and talk with others well while multi tasking and staying busy. If you don't fit into this category then you probably wouldn't do so well in such a fast paced industry that requires a lot of social contact with the customers.
ReplyDeleteMy other job for example has a more conservative approach to their motives. They want their employees to be professional and not as social with each other because this interferes with the actual amount of work that gets done.