How to be a good employee
Published on Jan 04, 2016
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Session Aims
- Consider different perspectives on the workplace
- Reflect on how you behave at work
- Plan how to behave differently in the future
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How would you define being "...a good employee"?
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Gareth Morgan's Metaphors of Organisation
- Metaphors create different perspectives
- Lens - emphasizes and obscures
- All organisations can be viewed by all metaphors
- Some more or less useful
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Organiational Metaphors - Kathy Milhauser (YouTube)
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Machine
- What was the last role you had?
- How did it relate to other people's roles?
- What affected your performance?
- How could improve on your performance?
Organism
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Organism
- What were the external pressures?
- How was the organsiation trying to adapt?
- How did your role relate to that?
Culture/ Family
Culture/ Family
- What were the values and views?
- How did these affect actions?
- How did you associate with the culture?
Give and Take: The Three Universal Styles of Interaction - Adam Grant (YouTube)
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Political Organisations
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Political Organisation
- How did/ could conflict occur?
- What were the factions?
- How was it played out?
- How did it affect you?
Conclusion
- What have you learnt?
- What will you do about it?
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