Sunday, February 8, 2009

Often times many organizations tend to take a multidisciplinary approach to their business sometimes without even realizing it. Taking a multidisciplinary approach means that each individual is working in their department on their own tasks they need to complete for their company. In doing this (even though they do their part to help the company) they sometimes tend to fail communication with other departments within their organization. In doing this employees sometimes have no idea what the goal or the final outcome is that the company is trying to achieve. Now if they choose to work in an interdisciplinary manner employees will still perform their same tasks but tend to have more communication between departments. This now opens up a higher level of communication and each employee knows exactly what each and every individual is trying to achieve. This leads back to the old term "team work" which is essential for an organization to strive for success. The organization I am doing my internship with does tend to work in a more interdisciplinary manner. Since it is a family owned music shop they communicate with each other (including myself) to make sure each individual is on the same page. We make sure each employee knows when shipments are coming in, orders need to be made, parents for their childrens lessons need to be contacted etc. With this type of communication taking place it makes the business run very smooth. We don't necessarily have teams or different departments in the music shop since it is a small family owned business. Like I stated earlier though we work as a team in an interdisciplinary manner and this sets the business up for success and with hopes of expanding in the future. I would also say the overall organizational structure of our workplace is most likely a matrix style. We frequently use teams of employees to accomplish work in order to take advantage of the company strengths.

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1 comment:

  1. Chris,
    Something went weird with what you posted. Check it out on line. Not sure why it includes the publish post etc...

    Anyway, great job of applying the concepts of ‘disciplinarity’ and ‘interdisciplinarity’ that you learned in 301 to your applied study experience.

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