Tutorial 6 – Understanding Organisations: Theory and
Practice: Power Simulation Debriefing + Cultural Review
Agenda
Debriefing Last week’s simulation
Analysing culture: exercise
Essay preparation: Need clarifications?
Next activity
Are Values important
Test, which is present on lecture slide (Involving standing up and sitting
down, testing your values)
Reflection on last week simulation
How did it go?
Who won and who lost from the arrangements? (Consider in your group)
Which type of logic/rationale guided the decision makers?
Did leader behave responsibly? Ethically? In which sense?
What about power relationships?
- Use of authority
- Video on YouTube
- Use of visible power (e.g. blackmailing)
- Use of invisible power?
- Forms of resistance?
- What enabled/constrained the different power strategies? The
employees (you and other group members) complied with the structure
that the manager gave you
Individual activity (5 min)
Do you find the simulation realistic?
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Practice: Power Simulation Debriefing + Cultural Review
Agenda
Debriefing Last week’s simulation
Analysing culture: exercise
Essay preparation: Need clarifications?
Next activity
Are Values important
Test, which is present on lecture slide (Involving standing up and sitting
down, testing your values)
Reflection on last week simulation
How did it go?
Who won and who lost from the arrangements? (Consider in your group)
Which type of logic/rationale guided the decision makers?
Did leader behave responsibly? Ethically? In which sense?
What about power relationships?
- Use of authority
- Video on YouTube
- Use of visible power (e.g. blackmailing)
- Use of invisible power?
- Forms of resistance?
- What enabled/constrained the different power strategies? The
employees (you and other group members) complied with the structure
that the manager gave you
Individual activity (5 min)
Do you find the simulation realistic?
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