PBOGThe Sociology of Organisational LifeBy Clive BurgessCopyright October 2011

● The Master Plan● Patterns of Behaviour● Promoting PBOG● Activity Theory - Plans● Social Relationships

Mapping Out a Master Plan

P B O G

Behavioural StuffHSE

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Behavioural Change

WasteAwareness

Activity Theory

Activity System

Activity Theory&

Internalised Plan

DevelopmentHistory

InterpersonalBehaviour

SocietiesSeen as

Organisations

Rational Organisation Division of Labour

Rules

CDM Regulations

ISO 14001

LAW

Local Council'sCode of Conduct

Examples

OUTCOMETransformation

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Social Relationships

PBOG: The sociology of organisational life

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Investigating models Investigating models of behaviour

• Theory of Planned Behaviour

• Theory of Reasoned Action

• Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour

• Values-Belief theory

• Social Cognitive theory

• Norm Activation theory

• Protection Motivation theory

• Competences learning model

Interrogating theories

• Diffusion of Innovations

• Lewin’s Change Theory

• Stages of Change model

• Input/output Persuasion model

• Cialdini’s factors of influence

• Community-based social marketing

• Information, Motivation, Behavioural Skills Model

• Organisational change theories

• Community organisation theories

• Models of Learning, i.e. double-loop learning and group learning

Interrogating theories of behaviour change

Promoting PBOG on the Internet

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PBOG - Plan Plans as Situated Action: An Activity Theory Approach to Workflow Systems Jakob E. Barriram Computer Science Department, Aarhus University and Kommunedata I/S, Denmark.

A New Understanding of Plans Based on Activity Theory Based on Activity Theory a plan can be defined as a cognitive or material artefact which supports the anticipatory reflection of future goals for actions, based on experience about recurrent structures in life. an artefact, the plan is socially constructed, is eventually crystallised into a material form, is shared among the actors in the work practice, is used to mediate work, and constitute a central part of the organisation's material conditions for work. A plan is a series of expectations to future results under certain conditions and the execution becomes an afferent synthesis between the plan and the conditions of the concrete situation. The fundamental feedback loop in the course of an activity forms the basis for a learning process embedded in the activity. This learning process creates and enhances the plan, which was originally the guiding principle for the activity

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PBOG - PlanProducing and Altering Plans in the Course of Work

The experience of using a plan to guide an activity under certain conditions is obtained during the activity itself. So, in order for plans to become resources for the future realisation of an activity, the plan should be made as part of this activity -situated planning. , it is important that the planning tool allows for the ongoing creation and modification of a plan based on obtained experience in realising the plan.

Humans are distinct in their abilities to articulate an intention, then to wilfully plan to act on it, and reflect on their actions in terms of their intentions. Jakob E. Barriram

Activities - PBOG – Social Relationships

Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...How do you define 'social' relationships?

A 'relationship' is a quality which can be stated only of two or more entities together where each refers to the other, not of some single thing.

Relationships may be physical, biological, social or cultural.Example Physical: Cup and Saucer... Biological: Bird and an egg... Social: Husband and Wife... or Home and Work... Cultural: A noun and a verb

'Social' relationships are where some entity recognised as being 'social' that is people, organisations or societies, are constantly in interaction with each other at some level or another.

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PBOG - RelationshipsRelationships: Relationships when viewed as social relationships....

A relationship is an interaction between two people... a husband and a wife is a home relationship … a boss and a worker is a work relationship... an interrelationship strictly speaking is a relationship between two relationships.

A relationship between two relationships:...eg relationships in the home between husband and wife and relationships at work between a boss and a worker

Interrelationships are therefore relationships between relationships... a woman as a worker at work and the woman as a wife at home

By extension intra-relationships is an activity carried on within a relationship for example the wife having sex with the husband but not with her boss that would be extra-relationships..

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