Friday, October 10, 2008

Blog #2 10.10.08

Deetz interview:
What I found facinating about the Stanley Deetz interview was his concept of the 10% giving back for 90% more porductivity in corporations. Although it was mentioned at the very end of the interview and I wished that Em Griffin would have continued to probe Deetz with questions surrounding this idea, I still found it very interesting.
I also found it amazing that this theory is based around humility. It would be great to someday be a manager of a team at a large corporation, but I can see the pressure and responsability that it takes from an individual. I really can see that it takes a toll on some people, and others handle the pressure with easy (or so it appears.)
I like that Em Griffin talked about the argument that too many ideas would create chaos, and I think that the 10% concept explained by Deetz was a great rebuttle.

1 comment:

Professor Cyborg said...

Deetz may have talked about the 10% back to the community idea in greater depth but it may have been cut from the published interview. The original interviews are about an hour, then Griffin edits them down to 7-8 minutes of what he thinks students will find most interesting. Corporations do need to focus on enriching their communities because that's the place their employees live. Corporations benefit from those communities. Still, it's getting more and more difficult to identify the communities in which organizations are embedded as so many organizations are no longer local. The money you spend at the WalMart in San Jose goes right out of the city, county, and state to Arkansas. Still, the idea of organizations investing in every community they function in is a good one.