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Task 1: Analysis of personal experience
of being different
Think of a recent experience you have had where you felt you
were being treated as though you were "different".
It could be an experience in this course, at work, or anywhere.
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different from others can be frustrating, isolating,
and even painful. In our desire to avoid these feelings
of difference, we are often tempted to deny our
individual uniqueness and to "fit in"
- to adopt the superficial characteristics of the
majority. But doing so is not good for us as individual
for we are denying part of ourselves with resulting
feelings of alienation (playing a role). It is ineffective
as well, for our skills lie with who we are, not
who we pretend to be. Nor is this denial of differences
good for the organization, for without a variety
of perspectives and alternatives for action, organizations
become rigid and ultimately die (Kolb et al. (1991) |
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