Week 7 – Promoting Positive Racial Teacher Student Classroom Relationships

Fractals describe one object or form created from repeating patterns evident at many levels of scale.

According to Dr. Campbell, there are six levels of a dysfunctional organization. 

The foundation for the dysfunctional organization begins with each person’s use of Defense Mechanisms for coping.

Skilled Incompetence is a skill that is learned from the non-regular application of a defense mechanism has a high degree of incompetence embedded within it, because we are unaware of how this skill will impact our future.

Defensive routines are the second level. When the skilled incompetence is automatically exhibited at all times, the behavior is now a defensive routine.

Fancy footwork is the third level. Fancy footwork happens when individuals try to deny the behavioral inconsistencies they exhibit, or else they place blame on other people, which results in distancing themselves from taking responsibility for their behavioral inconsistencies.

Organizational malaise is the final level. During this phase the individuals in the organization will seek to find fault within the organization rather than accept responsibility for their actions and correct their behavior accordingly.

Theory Y managers hold the assumption that employees are untrustworthy and treat them as untrustworthy.

The organizational frames according to Bolman and Deal include: 

The Political Frame addresses conflicts between individuals or differing interest groups.