Dr Ilfryn Price Tue, 11 Jun 1996 16:24 said:
> "When the unwritten rules get talked about at all
> it is in the informal conversations of the company, the corridor
> encounters, the chats over lunch, or the gossip in the pub after work. To
> reveal the rules those conversations must be brought out into the open. If
> you are really serious there is no substitute for a series of interviews
> in which you sympathetically and empathetically encourage a representative
> group of individuals to talk about the reality of life in their particular
> organisation. One amazing fact is how quickly a pattern of consistent
> answers emerges. Another amazing fact is that an external consultant is
> almost always essential. People in the pattern have trouble seeing it. A
> third amazing fact is that most unwritten rule situations end up
> manifesting one or more systems archetypes [I think in fact I have seen
> every archetype I know in one situation or another]"
[added the ">" to set off the quotation]
If,
Do you have a breakdown on the source or sources of the
unwritten rules and is there a cross system set of elements that
make up the archetypes?
Ray Evans Harrell
mcore@soho.ios.com
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