A Mir Kiss
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A case study on Organisational Behaviours
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OK – I don’t know if the Nebula background will work – it is very busy and will
demand that all the text is in a very light colour.
If someone can make it as a washed out wallpaper then it might be OK, but for
now I am going to work on a plain vanilla background and we can change it
later.
We are working in .pptx (not .ppt). We are aware that not everyone will be
operating on the same version, but it is what we am used to now. We can
change back down to .ppt if we need to later.
As a means of progressing all the good work we have done to date we thought
we might start to set out a draft framework for our presentation. You are, of
course, free to agree, or disagree with what is here. If you agree, great, if you
disagree, great, but please let the rest of the group know what you disagree
with, why you disagree with it and what you would like to see instead.
In the interests of time and progressing this project, silence, or non-response
will be taken as affirmation.
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Contents
Overview:
description of the case
Issues:
facts about what happened: Language failure, alcohol,
fighting, kiss, complaint, departure etc etc
OB issues:
1: Experiment set up – organisation boundaries, rules of operation,
behaviours, vision.
2: Integration of new comers (researchers, gender issues)
3: Team development (forming, storming, etc)
4: Leadership (direction, control, accountability etc)
5: Staff support mechanisms (complaint procedures, redress, procedural
justice etc)
6: Something else that should be included
Recommendations
Conclusions
Overview
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Facts about the case:
• International study of the effects of prolonged isolation
• 4 cosmonauts
• 3 international researchers
• 1 female
• Americas and French declined to participate
• Cosmonauts had spent 110 days in isolation before the researchers joined
them
• Etc etc
Issues
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More detail than the Overview.
What are some of the issues that arose that will help the reader understand
more about this case and why it is worth writing about
• Joining the Cosmonauts after 110 days of isolation
• English is the agreed language but nobody bothers to speak it
• Etc Etc
And so on and so on
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This is very static stuff, but designed to give a framework for how we might
pull this together.
I know some people have great ideas about embedding sound and video and
that’s great – lets do it.
Next steps:
• Agree on the framework – as is, or how you think it should be changed. Lets
get consensus on the framework, soon.
• Break up the framework and assign parts to people to flesh out and complete
i.e. someone do the Overview, someone do the Integration bit etc
• Agree on a timetable to get it back onto the wiki and start to collate it into
one cohesive piece.
• Lets go