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3. Functional theory focuses on decision-making

1. Given that the functional theory focuses on decision-making and problem-solving groups, why is its silence on relationship issues a problem?
2. Consider "Stories at Dixie" as an ethnographer's thick description. What can you deduce about the subculture from the fragment of narrative on pages 249-250?
3. Think of your extended family as an organizational culture. What family ritual might you analyze to interpret the webs of significance you share to someone visiting your home?
4. Managers use strategy and consent to maintain control over subordinates. According to Deetz, which practice is more effective? Why?

The first question I chose to answer was

1. Given that the functional theory focuses on decision-making and problem-solving groups, why is its silence on relationship issues a problem?

I think that the silence on relationship issues is a problem because these issues still happen whether they are being talked about or not. The more they are not getting talked about the more it will go unnoticed and this is something that I feel should not go unnoticed. We have relationships with people every day from meeting someone in a grocery store to someone you have been dating relationships are all around us.

The next question I chose to answer was

3. Think of your extended family as an organizational culture. What family ritual might you analyze to interpret the webs of significance you share to someone visiting your home?

A family ritual that that I might analyze and share with someone is every year after school lets out my family and my grandparents travel to the Eastern Shore to visit other family members such as my great aunt my grandpa and grandma and cousins. While we are up in Salisbury we spend a day shopping a catching up with family then the next day we spend the day in Ocean City. Every time we go to Ocean City we go to the board walk and play games, eat Thrasher's french fries, and get Dollies popcorn.