IS Undergrads Class 13
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The rituals of IT use Today and next class... Today: The tools for change: A menu of choices Next class: The tools for change: The best tool for an ‘inside job’ ... add both to p. 119, at the end of the section on ‘TOOLS FOR CHANGE’
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Transcript of IS Undergrads Class 13
The rituals of IT use
Today and next class...
Today: The tools for change: A menu of choices
Next class: The tools for change: The best tool for an ‘inside job’
... add both to p. 119, at the end of the section on ‘TOOLS FOR CHANGE’
challenges &opportunities
managerial practices
employees’practices
challenges &opportunities
managerial practices
employees’practices
Groups: Structure interaction
The problem with alignemt
vs.
The problem with politics
You should be here
You are here
Culture is the only lever left
The two views of culture
Have Do
What are the posters for?
“I don’t know! I think it’s to show managers when they come down to visit us...”
“Several weeks later, while sitting at my new desk, I turned 25 -- one quarter of a century.! Two quarters left. ! I took out a piece of paper and wrote out what is important in my life and what average, but attainable, adult goals I wanted to achieve, and despaired.”
The quarter life crisis
What is the “Quarterlife Crisis”
Main Entry:!!quarterlife crisis
Part of Speech:!!noun
Definition:!!an emotional crisis in one's twenties with
anxiety and self-doubt after leaving academic life
What is the “Quarterlife Crisis”
“Quarterlife Crisis is a response to overwhelming instability,
constant change, too many choices, and a panicked sense of
helplessness.” While the twenties are most definitely a time
of opportunity, sometimes the “endless array of decisions can
also make a recent grad feel utterly lost.”
~Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in your
Twenties. Robbins & Wilner. 2001. p. 3
Emerging Adulthood
“It’s not that they don’t take adulthood seriously; they take it so seriously, they’re
spending years carefully choosing the right path into it.”
~Tim!
Biggest misperception you had of life in your 20s…
I would have everything “figured out” by now
It would be “easier”
Being grown-up would feel “different” like
some major event would happen that would
make me “be grown-up”
What is one word you would use to describe life in your 20s?
Number of respondents in each category:
46: Change/Transition
45: Adventure/Exciting
45: Difficult/Challenging
41: Fulfilling/Interesting
35: Confusing/Tumultuous
27: Busy/Chaotic
15: Discovery/Educational
Interesting Responses
Broke
Fun, then Scary
Hard work
Increasingly Focused
Interesting
Lonely
Lost
Naïve
Rollercoaster
Soap Opera
Surprise!
Thrilling!
Typical
Unhappy
Vacillating
What is this a case of?
Liminality is a conscious state of being on the "threshold" of or between two different existential planes
The liminal state is characterized by ambiguity, openness, and indeterminacy.
Liminality and identity
One's sense of identity dissolves to some extent, bringing about disorientation.
Liminality is a period of transition where normal limits to thought, self-understanding, and behavior are relaxed - a situation which can lead to new perspectives.[citations needed]
Where does this come from?
21 3
As many cites as the transaction cost model.
Where does this come from?
Where does this really come from?
Transitioning into fatherhood
Culture-led change
Separation Re-integrationChange
Separation
• Symbolic break with current practices
Create a space for change
• Avoid integration
Preserve a space for change
Parenthesis to keep positive sense of self
• Upset identity
Create an opportunity to craft a new story
Change
• Supply a model of identity
New definition of work
• Create social experiences of identity construction
Learn / discuss in group
• Explore and expose mistakes
Learn in a safe setting
Re-Integration
• Closing the state of change
Face needs to come back to be a motivator and a control system
• Integration in informal networks
Know where to go for support
• Peripheral participation
Action that is safe for the individual and for the organization
Culture-led change
Separation Re-integrationChange
72% of IT-led change projects are
outsourced
challenges &opportunities
managerial practices
employees’practices
Groups: Structure interaction
Individuals: Change in ‘limbo’
