Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Today was pretty much on the same topic as last week but in comparison to last week's topic, this week's was much more focused. Basically, the lecturer continued with the role theory: role ambiguity, role incompatibility, role signs and role models. Role ambiguity and incompatibility were very similar in their elements; they were all talking about superior being good friends with their employees. They were different in their concept. Role ambiguity talked about employees do not know their limits and incompatibility talked about the restraints when the employer want to carry out punishments with their 'good friends'. The next part of the lecture talked about groups at work. The attributes of a group will comprise of three elements: a sense of identity, loyalty and acceptance and the purpose and leadership. He also covers the reasons and the trend with groups which include preference for small networks, the ned to belong, familiarity, common rank, attractiveness of an activity, resources offered to groups, power, formal directives and informal groups such as cliques. He went on to talk about huamn behavior being different in groups, offering synergy as being positive and negative. The next thing would be the individual contributions vs group contributions. After that, he went on with the key components of griup process which include stages of group development, role differentiation, communication and interaction, task and maintenance and decision making.Labels: accountancy, accountant in business, accounting, business accounting
what we could have been, 11:08 PM.
