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Cambridge Ideas - The Boat Race: A Perfect Crew?MARK AS DONE
Title:
Cambridge Ideas - The Boat Race: A Perfect Crew?
Author:
Mark de Rond, Cambridge University
Publisher:
YouTube
Publication Date:
Oct 2, 2009
Assessment details
To complete this assessment you must analyse and deconstructoneof three articles / media clips (details provided below). To "deconstruct" something is to look beyond the surface of what is being said or written; it is to pull an argument apart and look for the assumptions and agenda that informs a person's viewpoint and argumentation.Each article / media clip more or less embodies a particular paradigm, although they are not perfect or "ideal" fits with the paradigms. We tell you which paradigm each article exemplifies. Your task is to demonstrate your knowledge and skills by explainingwhythe article/media clip embodies this paradigm. Note that there is no functionalist article/media clip available to deconstruct for your assignment. Instead, we will workshop a functionalist article in class, to demonstrate how you might approach the assignment and analyse your chosen article/clip. Rest assured we will workshop ALL the articles/readings in class.
The three articles/media clips for you to choose for your deconstruction are:
Interpretivist/social relativist exemplar: Cambridge University, Mark de Rond (2009). Cambridge Ideas - The Boat Race: A Perfect Crew? YouTube. For access, see the Reading List, Assignment 1 readings.
Radical structuralist exemplar:The CORE Project (2015). Thomas Piketty: The long-run economics of wealth inequality. YouTube. For access, see the Reading List, Assignment 1 readings. Please also note there is a range of other YouTube clips in Week 4 of the Reading List, if you would like to learn more about Thomas Piketty's thinking, including a three minute clip that explains the concept of capital. This is a useful primer.
Radical humanist/neo-humanist exemplar:IWD 2019: Intersectionality at work. Accenture. March 5, 2019. YouTube. For access, see the Reading List, Assignment 1 readings.
How to approach the assessment
1. Listen to Lectures 1 - 5 closely, taking notes as you go on the characteristics of each paradigm.
2. Attend your tutorials, where the paradigms will be discussed.
3. Read/listen to the three articles/media clips, andchooseonethat you wish to deconstruct.
We provide a worksheet to help you identify the relevant characteristics of the paradigm that the article / media clip exemplifies. We will be workshopping each article in class. The relevant worksheet can be found here:Worksheet for assessment 1 INCLUDEPICTURE "https://rmit.instructure.com/images/svg-icons/svg_icon_download.svg" * MERGEFORMATINET Download Worksheet for assessment 1.Do NOT submit the worksheet as your assignment.
4. Review the following text, focusing particularly on your chosen paradigm: Burrell, G. & Morgan, G. 1979,Sociological paradigms and organisational analysis,Routledge, USA. (Part 1, Chapters 13, pp. 137). For access, see the Reading List (essential reading).
Highlight passages that distil the characteristics of your chosen paradigm. See the worksheet as an example.
Highlight passages in your article / media clip (type out the relevant quote/feature of the clip) where you see these characteristics in operation. See the worksheet for an example.
5. In 1,000 words (+/- 10%, excluding references) build your case as to why your chosen article/media clip exemplifies its given paradigm. Below are guiding questions to consider and respond to. Studentsmustrespond to the first question, but you donot need to answer allquestions:
What features of the paradigm can you see in operation in the article/media clip?What paradigm do these features best reflect and why?You should place considerable weight on this question, as if you answer this question well, it will enable you to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of your chosen paradigm.
What is the topic of interest to the authors? Are they challenging the way the existing political and economic system operates, or are they seeking to improve the performance of organisations within the existing system? What paradigm do these interests best reflect and why? (Consider the order & regulation/radical change & conflict axis of the typology of the four paradigms).
Who has written the article/who is constructing the argument in the media clip? Who are they affiliated with, and what are their interests/agenda? What paradigm do these interests best reflect and why?
What are the aims of the article/media clip? (Note: these may be undeclared) What does the author/speaker wish to achieve? What paradigm do these aims best reflect and why?
What issues or aspects of organisations and management does the article/media clip ignore, or not engage with? What are the implications of these blind spots, and why are these blind spots characteristic of the paradigm this article/media clip exemplifies?
Essential elements
Use connected prose (no bullet points) to deconstruct your chosen article/clip. You may use subheadings if you wish, based on the questions listed above.
You must draw on the Burrell and Morgan text to help you construct your reasoning and argue your case.
You must also draw onat least two other scholarly sources(excluding the Burrell and Morgan text, this meansyou will be drawing on three scholarly sources at a minimum)to help construct your case. See the Reading List (Week 1:Organisational analysis - Introduction and framing) for a range of suggested resources.
Do not simply describe your chosen media clip. You mustanalyseit andargue whyit exemplifies the given paradigm.
We expect yourin textcitations to be perfect. This is asecond yearcourse and you must now demonstrate a solid understanding of how to acknowledge other people's ideas. This means citing the surnames of the authors whose work you are drawing on, the year of the publication, and, if you are using direct quotations,you must also wrap the words that are not yours in "quotation marks" and provide the page number from where you have drawn the quotation.It is advisable tobe sparing with direct quotations, and instead paraphrase the scholarly textswhere possible.
Do not cite the lectures.TIP: for scholarly resources, see the references at the end of the lecture slide-decks, or the reading list, especially Week 1.
Do not submit the worksheet from the tutorials as your assessment.
