Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood article
Another article, "Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" in Inside Higher Education on Oct. 16th is an example of the Structural perspective. Harvard University wanted to build a new student dorm and instead of having a design and hoping the surrounding neighborhood would approve they decided to ask the neighborhood first. The neighborhood actually came up with the design of what they wanted things to look like. Getting input from the environment- I think that is the structural perspective- unless I am mixing things up.
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Kathy...I think that could also be the organism perspective. The outside environment helped influence the organization. Thats is pretty nice of Harvard to ask the public for their opinion.
I wish I could just get input from my faculty within COS!!! I should send them this article!!! This has been a frustrating two weeks. Ironically, this week's readings have confirmed that the culture and organizational structure of my college is that of anarchy!!!
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