Semester 2

Sem2 Schedule
Exercises/Presentations
Week 1 Freedom Work and Organization
Week 2 Labour Process Control and Resistance
Week 3 Exercise Session 1
Week 4 Culture and Symbolism in Organizations
Week 5 Exercise Session 2
Week 6 Gender and Consumption
Week 7 Exercise Session 3
Week 8 Managing the Human Resource

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WIS Semester Two

Build on Semester Two

Group/Teamwork – Learning Through Doing

Teamwork, project management, division of labour, coordination, critical reflection,etc.

Balance of intellectual and experiential elements

Application of ideas to work and industry

Group Demonstrations and Presentations

Prepare in seminar groups

Team as resource

Use of sub-groups?

Present/Demonstrate in Lectures

e.g. answer a question

e.g. conduct a debate

e.g. demonstrate an idea

Examples of Questions, Tasks, Demonstrations

Identify 3 concepts that are relevant to WIS and provide glossary definitions of them. Prepare to defend your definitions

Create a sketch that demonstrates the dynamics of control and resistance in the labour process

Present a brief case study

Construct a relevant question, task or demonstration and respond to it

Summarise the key elements of a labour process perspective on work

Debate the claim that "There is greater freedom in today’s workplaces" (be prepared to propose or oppose this view)

Conduct a meeting

Enact a scene from one of the novels that demonstrates the presence of culture and symbolism

Make a sales pitch for a product

Summarise key points of Ch X of [Title of Article or Book] and indicate their relevance to the course

Develop a narrative using WIS concepts told by Miss Keaton that describes the working life of Stevens, the Butler

WIS Semester 2 Schedule- How it will work

Two weeks before each exercise session, Seminar Groups will receive at least two tasks, demonstrations and/or questions to prepare during the seminars prior to the Exercise Session. These `tasks’ should take 10-15 minutes. You will be asked to prepare at least one of these tasks at the Exercise Session and should be prepared to present two of the tasks. You may therefore wish to split into sub-groups to prepare the tasks.

At each Exercise Session, each group/team will be picked at random and asked to perform one of the tasks that they have prepared

On completion of their task/ answer/ demonstration, others teams will be asked to make a constructively critical comment on what they have seen/ heard

Another team will then be randomly selected to perform the next task/ answer the next question that they have prepared

Each group will be required to prepare a one page handout to distribute to the other groups. An electronic copy of the handouts is to be made available to place on the WIS website.

At the end of the Exercise Session, feedback on the contribution of one or more of the teams will be requested from the other teams

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