Saturday, June 14, 2008
Week 2_ Blog 3
In chapter 4 the topic of communication and organizations carries over. In the beginning of the chapter they refer to interdependence as the wholeness of the system and its environment and to the interrelationships of individuals within the system. For example, The cheer advisor and I have interdependence but my responsibilities as a coach effect her more than her responsibilities as an advisor effect me. As the on campus advisor, she works with other teachers and for the school or games. If I were to do a poor job coaching it would reflect on the team or vice versa if the team did a great performance her colleagues will comment to her since everyone know her and see her more.
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Essentially, interdependence helps your "department". So your cheer advisor, while she doesn't have much affect to your responsibilities, you still feed ideas off of her and exchange dialog that is essential for your responsibilities, as well as hers. She obviously would need to know what is going on etc. . And since you are a reflection of the school, she obviously has to make sure things are working out for the best interests in the school's reputation. So I am sure you have more effect on her than you may realize, especially since you don't do her day to day to really realize what she does with the information she receives from you.
If you didn't have an interdependent relationship, you would do your thing, she would do hers and no one would really know what is going on, not to mention, there would be not publicity for the cheer team, so you wouldn't even get people to come support you.
So it is essential to have interdependence in any kind of activities, even if we do not see just how much an effect it has. One department does help another.
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