Business Ethics BUSI 1314 Lecture 3 Wim Vandekerckhove vw 01@gre. ac. uk
Lecture 3 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. • Organisations as text When are words text? Social construction of reality Concepts and expectations Coursework 1, task 2 Further reading: Vandekerckhove (2006: 74 -85) Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
1. Organisations as text Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
Falkirk Council Corporate Plan Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
2. When are words ‘text’? Library Shelves, books, pages, words, characters How are the books ordered? Someone has put them there, like that. The collection has an author. How is the collection used? Which books get read? To do what? What is authored has a reader. Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
2. When are words ‘text’? (cont) To Hoover To Bing? To Google Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011 To Moodle?
2. When are words ‘text’? (cont) Text has both author and reader, who then becomes an author that might have a reader manipulate mistake Change? Apply in different context Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011 We construct meaning
3. Social construction of reality (Berger and Luckmann 1966) language experience expectations making sense of experience rationalise protest adjust Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011 Stretch concept reinforce perplex
3. Social construction of reality (Berger and Luckmann 1966) This happens in groups language experience expectations Managers try to do a lot here making sense of experience Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
4. Concepts and expectations How we talk/write about organisations (and their stakeholders) norming What we expect from organisations (+ stakeholders) How we make sense of what happens in and to organisations (+ stakeholders) Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011 Flexibility Network Responsibility Creativity Governance
5. Coursework 1, task 2 Requirements: 1. Choose 1 statement from those provided (webct) 2. Comment on the statement. Guiding questions: a) if the statement were true, why would you (not) want to work there? b) can you think of a situation in which it would be awkward for the statement to be true? 500 words, submit as part of coursework 1 (deadline 5 Nov 3 pm) Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
References • Berger, P. L. and Luckmann, T. (1966), The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Garden City NY, Anchor Books. • Vandekerckhove, W. (2006), Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility. A Global Assessment. Aldershot/Burlington VT, Ashgate Publishing. Wim Vandekerckhove - Business Ethics BUSI 1314 - University of Greenwich 2010 -2011
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