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4 Political Frame Worksheet
4 Political Frame Worksheet
Complete the following making sure to support your ideas and cite from the textbook and other
course materials per APA guidelines. After the peer review, you have a chance to update this and
format for your Electronic Portfolio due in Module 6.
I work for a small family owned owned business. Our business likes to work with non profit
organizations. The Salvation Army is an organization that we like to work with in particular.
While working in a family owned business there is a lack of defined roles, responsibilities and
leadership.
As mentioned this business has a lack of defined roles. Without a distribution of work and
responsibilities, it makes it difficult to focus on goal setting and store growth. With family comes
it’s own set of complications. It can be hard to not only take on a leadership role with family but
Five propositions are noted in chapter 9 of the reading assignment. These propositions
note differences in beliefs and values, coalitions of different interest groups, and different
perseptions of reality, making differences put conflict at the center of dynamics (Bolman). We
can view these propositions affect on the store’s family dynamic. With a family you have a sense
of shared values, however there are still going to be differences in perspective and ideas. It can
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feel difficult to come forward to share ideas at the expense of affecting the family negatively. In
particular having a lack of authority means there is no one specific to go to to share ideas and/or
makes him feel hurt or less important. When we don’t have these defined roles it affects this
store dynamic in several ways. More feelings are involved causing emotions getting in the way
3) Recommend how you would use organizational politics for an alternative course of
action regarding your case.
that can be helpful in the work space. (Bolman) Properly integrating these aspects of the
political frame can help to form new ways to help the business grow and focus on goals that
are important to the business. For instance, donating and working with The Slavation Army
is a big priority for the store. What can cause a distrubtion of this project of sorts is not
having a distribution of work. By being able to set agendas, in a productive way, goals can be
made clear and the work that needs to be done to complete them.
Networking also plays a role already in this business. However, selecting one person or a
couple to be in charge of networking specifically could help to make bigger strides with
networking. The idea of adding in some new members to the store that are not within the
family is a way to get new perspectives and skill sets involved. This way tasks can be
distributed better. Having outside members of the family helps break up the family dynamic
to lead to a more professional work environment as well. Overall, this can help allow for
more effective work to be done, a safer space for ideas to be shared, and for the store goals to
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4) Reflect on what you would do or not do differently given what you have learned
about this frame.
Now I see how the political frame can have a more positive agenda then the original view I had
of politics. I see how politics can help with the distribution of power and responsibility. It can
help to set goals and work on prioritizing certain tasks. What I would do differently is educate
myself on the applyinh politics in a business environment. With that taking into account the
family dynamic that is already there. Seeing how politics can still be involved without having
negative connotations.
Bringing forward new ideas to begin with could have helped to open the floor up for
growth. By being able to be educated on the aspect of the political frame it can be better applied
in the work environment. With a family dynamic you not only have family values involved but
also certain expectations from being born into that family. With a more structured work
environment it can help encourage more of a conversation and a productive space to share ideas.
With this thinking it can be easier to focus on goals, set store expectations, and have a new more
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