Learning Outcomes:-

• Identify different analytical perspectives employed to understand organizations at the individual, social, and structural levels.
• Interpret and apply these multiple perspectives to empirically analyze organizations and the contexts in which they operate.
• Draw on different analytical perspectives as the basis for a socially responsible, ideologically aware approach towards organizational problem-solving.
• Evaluate knowledge assumptions, including one’s own, and come to recognize their management implications and practical consequences.

Assessment Details:-

To complete this assessment you must analyze and deconstruct one of three articles/media clips, decide which paradigm discussed in the lectures the article/media clip best embodies, and explain why this is so. To “deconstruct” something is to look beyond the surface of what is being said or written; it is to pull an argument apart and look for the assumptions and agenda that informs a person’s viewpoint and argumentation.

Each article/media clip more or less clearly embodies a particular paradigm, although they are not perfect or “ideal” fits with the paradigms. The challenge with this assessment is to demonstrate your knowledge and skills by explaining why  your chosen article/media clip exemplifies a particular paradigm.

Note that there is no functionalist article/media clip available to deconstruct for your assignment. Instead, we will workshop a functionalist article in class, to demonstrate how you might approach the assignment and analyze your chosen article/clip. Rest assured we will workshop ALL the articles/readings in class.