"Organizations...respond to an environment that consists of other organizations responding to their environment, which consists of organizations responding to an environment of organizations' responses" #VTOrgTheory
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Beavers' daily actions make a positive impact on our environment. Leaders should strive to be more like the beaver. #VTOrgTheory
Humor plays a number of important roles: it integrates, expresses skepticism, contributes to flexibility and adaptiveness, and lessens status differences...instead of asking why people use humor in organizations, we should ask why people are so serious (Bolman&Deal)#VTOrgTheory
"Within the profession of student affairs, it is imperative to understand the experience of professionals of color within our own institutional contexts to create environments where professionals can thrive" (Browning & Palmer, 2019) #VTOrgTheory
"The fact that the women were judged by the actions of the women before them set up a dilemma: not only were they judged by the male norms of the organization, they were measured against what other women prior to them did in the position" (Eddy & Cox, 2008) #VTOrgTheory
"A lot of people working at Walmart go home and live below the poverty line. You expect that person to come in and develop a rapport with customers who may be spending more than that person is making in a week?" (Stone, 2013) #VTOrgTheory
"Many of the changes experienced as a function of the university's pursuit of tier-one status have undermined the university's role as a defender of intellectual freedom, worker autonomy and dignity, and social justice" - from DeTurk & Briscoe (2020) #VTOrgTheory
"Much of our training and education is often geared to making us 'fit in' and feel comfortable in our appointed place, so that the organization can proceed in a rational and efficient way." - Gareth Morgan #VTOrgTheory
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