Discuss the role status norms of any difference in decision making
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Workplace politics, (office politics or organizational politics) is the use of power and social networking within an organization to achieve changes that benefit the organization or individuals within it. Influence by individuals may serve personal interests without regard to their effect on the organization itself
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As an adjunct instructor in human services, I try to bring seemingly dry concepts to life for my students. A recent discussion focused on the idea of social norms and their role in society as well as our everyday lives. Noting my students’ fading energy reserves (I teach an evening class), I asked them:
Have you ever altered the way you act in public because you felt you had to behave in a certain way?What happens when you don’t act the way people expect you to behave?Do you expect others to act according to certain expectations depending on their age, occupation, or relationship to you?
The students perked up, because of course these scenarios rang true for each of them. That’s because social norms – expectations that inform us how we’re supposed to behave in certain situations – are ubiquitous in our society. I explained that social norms have four qualities:
They tell us what to do and what not to doThey are socially shared (in other words, most people have a general understanding and awareness of the norm)They carry an element of control or sanction, which can invoke feelings of guilt or fear if the social norm is not metThey can actually constrain behavior – or at least highly influence it
Have you ever altered the way you act in public because you felt you had to behave in a certain way?What happens when you don’t act the way people expect you to behave?Do you expect others to act according to certain expectations depending on their age, occupation, or relationship to you?
The students perked up, because of course these scenarios rang true for each of them. That’s because social norms – expectations that inform us how we’re supposed to behave in certain situations – are ubiquitous in our society. I explained that social norms have four qualities:
They tell us what to do and what not to doThey are socially shared (in other words, most people have a general understanding and awareness of the norm)They carry an element of control or sanction, which can invoke feelings of guilt or fear if the social norm is not metThey can actually constrain behavior – or at least highly influence it
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