Ethnography of Corporate Culture

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Locating a Social Situation

There are many ways of writing a good ethnographic/field research paper.
This is step one of a 12 step process, outlined by Spradley, that will
lead you to your final project for this course: Your Written
Ethnography. Following the 12 steps outlined in this course will give
you an introduction to several of the components of en ethnographic
paper to ensure that your readers understand what you are doing and that
you are doing justice to the information your participants provided.
Before you start writing ask yourself: Who is my audience? Who do I want
to read this? What do I want them to get out of this? What position am I
going to take? Do I want to be distanced (3rd Person) or do I want to be
more involved (1st person). Enjoy this project. You will find that this
will prove to be a great learning experience when you begin you Doctoral
Project.

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Read carefully Step 1 in the PO text book and establish a work sheet set
of the specific tasks outlined at the end of the chapter (page 52) for
review with your mentor and be sure to log in these 50 situations and
select your top 6 for consideration (suggestion – use an excel spread
sheet). Think of the specifics as to why your selected situations might
work and outline the actions, activities and places that best fit for
your ethnographic project. Submit your list and selected six (6)
situation proposals with advantages of each of your selected six
situations for final review and you recommendation on what situation
will be chosen. Explain why you chose that specific research situation
and outline both the significance and the research scope, material
availability, and especially the contribution and significance of your
specific selection. Make sure there is plenty of research data available
within your selected situation to formulate an expansive research
project and presentation.

As part of your Step 1 process develop a matrix table of ethical
considerations for actors and other research data and information
points. Affix this table to your assignment submittal and affix this
matrix to your log. Be articulate as to the ethical causes and possible
effects of your research actions and consider possible outcomes of each
cited event and especially what actions must be taken to avert such
ethical breeches. Your ethical table should cover the scope of your
research only and include an insertion on APA citation requirements on
the use of all data within your project.

Assignment 3
Participant Observation – James P. Spradley
Step 1 – Locating a Social Situation
Step 2 – Doing a Particiapant Observation
Cultures and Organizations – Geery Hofstede & Gert Jan Hofstede
Chapter 3 – More Equal than Others
Chapter 4 – I, We, and They

Please read Steps 1 and 2 in your Primary Text (PO) and Chapters 3 and 4
(CO). Read the following 3 articles: Ethics of in Company Research,
Critical Success Factors of KM systems, & A grounded theory for resistance.

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