...EDL 515 Week 2 Learning Team Cultural Analysis Presentation To Buy This material Click below link http://www.uoptutors.com/EDL-515/EDL-515-Week-2-Learning-Team-Cultural-Analysis-Presentation Conduct a cultural analysis of a specific organization by using observable artifacts as indicators of underlying assumptions. Discuss various categories of organizations (e.g., fast food restaurants, churches, public libraries, specialty retail stores, etc.). Select one location within an organizational category (e.g., McDonald’s is a location within the fast food category) for purposes of conducting an organizational analysis. Visit the selected location to gather data and artifacts (e.g., brochures, digital photographs, menus, etc.) to be used for an organizational analysis. Cite your sources consistent with APA guidelines. Gather data on the following: · Physical environment · Interpersonal relationships among employees · Interpersonal relationships between employees and customers · Rituals of the organization · Dress codes · Observable organizational values and/or beliefs Conduct interviews with employees of the respective location. The purpose of the interview is to learn more about the organization’s culture. Ask interview questions that address the items above (e.g., “How would you characterize the relationships among employees?” “How would you characterize the relationships between employees and customers?” “What are the rituals of your organization?”) in...
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...Acknowledgments ix Acknowledgments This book owes a great deal to the mental energy of several generations of scholars. As an undergraduate at the University of Cape Town, Francis Wilson made me aware of the importance of migrant labour and Robin Hallett inspired me, and a generation of students, to study the African past. At the School of Oriental and African Studies in London I was fortunate enough to have David Birmingham as a thesis supervisor. I hope that some of his knowledge and understanding of Lusophone Africa has found its way into this book. I owe an equal debt to Shula Marks who, over the years, has provided me with criticism and inspiration. In the United States I learnt a great deal from ]eanne Penvenne, Marcia Wright and, especially, Leroy Vail. In Switzerland I benefitted from the friendship and assistance of Laurent Monier of the IUED in Geneva, Francois Iecquier of the University of Lausanne and Mariette Ouwerhand of the dépurtement évangélrlyue (the former Swiss Mission). In South Africa, Patricia Davison of the South African Museum introduced me to material culture and made me aware of the richness of difference; the late Monica Wilson taught me the fundamentals of anthropology and Andrew Spiegel and Robert Thornton struggled to keep me abreast of changes in the discipline; Sue Newton-King and Nigel Penn brought shafts of light from the eighteenthcentury to bear on early industrialism. Charles van Onselen laid a major part of the intellectual foundations on...
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