SOCS2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Emic And Etic, Department Of The Environment And Energy, Mutitjulu
29 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
SOCS2100
Organizational Management and Social Behavior
March 14, 2018
WEEK 3
Handling Complexity
Charting Organizational Structures
• EXAMPLE: UoN Structure
o Colors
▪ Dark blue, light blue, grey
▪ Differentiate different levels
o Ranking, top-down
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o In English, we read left to right, top to bottom
o Responsibility
o People are responsible for people further up the chain
o Can break down roles into smaller components
• EXAMPLE: Parks Australia
o Colors
▪ Green, grey, black
▪ Associated with the environment
o Shapes
▪ Circles
▪ Separate identities that are partially involved
▪ Sense of community and inclusivity
▪ Part of circle, part of whole procedure
o Top circle
▪ Different colored people sitting around a round table
▪ Indigenous (black) and non-indigenous (grey)
▪ Table not traditional indigenous object
▪ Dominated by Western
o Left side – Nguritja Traditional Owners
▪ Aspirations and Directions
▪ Traditional owners
▪ Black color
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o Right side – Mutitjulu Community
▪ Community Management
▪ People sitting and talking about things
o Bottom – Parks Australia
▪ Management and Implementation of Plan and Policy
▪ Rectangular desk and person behind it – in charge, grey person,
Western
▪ Rangers – grey and black
o Middle - Joint Management Partnership
▪ BoM Secretary – grey, head honcho
▪ CLC Consultation – grey
▪ Mutitjulu Liaison – black
▪ Board Project Teams/Committees
• Indigenous and non-indigenous
▪ Dotted circle – all other organizations are included in the central
one
Mapping Decision Making Process
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Document Summary
Charting organizational structures: example: uon structure, colors, dark blue, light blue, grey, differentiate different levels, ranking, top-down. Western: rangers grey and black, middle - joint management partnership, bom secretary grey, head honcho, clc consultation grey, mutitjulu liaison black, board project teams/committees. Indigenous and non-indigenous: dotted circle all other organizations are included in the central one. Mapping organizational processes: example: nz war pension chart. Goal of the chart/diagram: what are we using it for: abstract/concrete, to communicate, analyze, or illustrate an abstract principle (which can be applied to a number of situations) or a concrete example (to problem solve a particular issue) Ideal/actual: to communicate, analyze, or illustrate an ideal, or an actual, case study. Conflations: do not conflate abstract with the concrete, do not conflate the ideal with the actual, conflate combine. Important for gaining understandings of complex social phenomena: ethnography, participant or non-participant observation, understanding emic and etic (insider/outsider) perspectives.
