We need to look at the organizational culture problem through all of the organizational ecology steps that include: Exo (External cultural values, belief systems, politics that manifest in org. subsystems), Macro (Divisions, departments, overall organization), Meso (Inter-relationships at individual level) and Micro (Individual, peers, manager, leader). (Sims, Krone and Jablin, 2002). INSERT SOMETHING HERE FROM ANGIE’S BOOK -TBD
From the Exo level we see that there are cultural beliefs of honors being elitist. Again from (Engelen-Eigles & Milner, 2015), “honors education at community colleges has the potential to be subversive and to reject the educational stratification inherent in the current model along with the resultant tracking by …show more content…
This again is the individual, manager, peer and leader level. Creating culture here must start with knowledge about the program and recruitment. The program should remember the anticipatory stage of socialization when dealing with this part of culture. From the book, Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization by Chaney, Christensen, Zorn, and Ganesh (2010), “The anticipatory stage refers to everything we learn about a specific job and a specific organization prior to the first day of work.” Although the Honors Program is not a job for students, necessarily, it does come with an anticipatory set. Again, if a student thinks the program is for “smarter” or “richer” students – the program could be doomed. The communication of the culture must start with the social media, institutional literature, recruitment materials, and the hallway talk within JCCC and the Honors Program. The shared artifact, values and assumptions must all be reinforced in order to make the Micro culture …show more content…
As the article by Keyton explains, “The interplay of messages and meanings creates a culture, or a set of artifacts, values, and assumptions, by which people choose their subsequent behaviors and messages and against which behaviors and messages are interpreted. Hence culture is both a process and a product.” As we saw in the Organization Culture Issue above we can use those cultural aspects to broaden the communication in the JCCC Honors Program. To further try to get away from the “elitist” ideals of honors the culture and communications of the department depends on clear information. Otherwise we end up with misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Craig (1999) reiterates that conflicts, misunderstandings and difficulties in coordination increase when social conditions afford a scarcity of shared rituals, rules, and expectations among members. If this is true, then the department should work on fixings these Sociocultural communications issues. Solving these issues can only help to bring about elitist thoughts from those students trying to enter the program. From Norm Weiner’s article Honors is Elitist, and What’s Wrong with That? (2009), “Helping our students climb the class ladder is an important latent function of honors education. So is helping our students realize how smart and talented they are despite their society’s assumption that the more
From the Exo level we see that there are cultural beliefs of honors being elitist. Again from (Engelen-Eigles & Milner, 2015), “honors education at community colleges has the potential to be subversive and to reject the educational stratification inherent in the current model along with the resultant tracking by …show more content…
This again is the individual, manager, peer and leader level. Creating culture here must start with knowledge about the program and recruitment. The program should remember the anticipatory stage of socialization when dealing with this part of culture. From the book, Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization by Chaney, Christensen, Zorn, and Ganesh (2010), “The anticipatory stage refers to everything we learn about a specific job and a specific organization prior to the first day of work.” Although the Honors Program is not a job for students, necessarily, it does come with an anticipatory set. Again, if a student thinks the program is for “smarter” or “richer” students – the program could be doomed. The communication of the culture must start with the social media, institutional literature, recruitment materials, and the hallway talk within JCCC and the Honors Program. The shared artifact, values and assumptions must all be reinforced in order to make the Micro culture …show more content…
As the article by Keyton explains, “The interplay of messages and meanings creates a culture, or a set of artifacts, values, and assumptions, by which people choose their subsequent behaviors and messages and against which behaviors and messages are interpreted. Hence culture is both a process and a product.” As we saw in the Organization Culture Issue above we can use those cultural aspects to broaden the communication in the JCCC Honors Program. To further try to get away from the “elitist” ideals of honors the culture and communications of the department depends on clear information. Otherwise we end up with misunderstandings and hurt feelings. Craig (1999) reiterates that conflicts, misunderstandings and difficulties in coordination increase when social conditions afford a scarcity of shared rituals, rules, and expectations among members. If this is true, then the department should work on fixings these Sociocultural communications issues. Solving these issues can only help to bring about elitist thoughts from those students trying to enter the program. From Norm Weiner’s article Honors is Elitist, and What’s Wrong with That? (2009), “Helping our students climb the class ladder is an important latent function of honors education. So is helping our students realize how smart and talented they are despite their society’s assumption that the more