CMN 2148 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cybernetics, Neuroplasticity, Organism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2148
• Professor: Trevor Tucker

Document Summary

You are paid to stick to your job [full function] You are paid to think [have an impact] The war encouraged new expectations of the workforce [machine to organism] Shift to greater emphasis on the individual. Evolution in the way we think organizations should operate. Shift from distinct hierarchy to a team. Focus on valuing + nurturing the individual, encouraging growth, retain + developing talent. We expect more from our work environments. @ uottawa if there was less concern for maximized efficiency we would have smaller class sizes, cross pollination, increased group work. Treatment of employees (peers rather than underlings) Freedom of creativity, independence, personal responsibility, flexibility. Instrument rationality: people and jobs fit together in a fixed design, logical means to an end. Brain is a system of substantial rationality: self-reflexivity and self-regulation, ex. making adjustments as you go through university, adapting as you progress. Pattern + order emerge from the process.