Ch.4 Partial Inclusion

I thought the section on Partial Inclusion in Ch. 4 was interesting. Weick uses Partial inclusion to analyze the balance between work and other activities and to explain why certain strategies for motivating employees are ineffective. He states that employees are only partially included in the workplace meaning we don't get see all their behaviors at work. For instance someone can be an unmotivated worker but be a church leader or model parent and someone can be an outstanding employee but engage in few outside activities from work.

Weick sees organizations as communities or social settings in which we choose to spend most of our adult life. After working at a hospital I have learned that few there actually participate in outside activities. I work for Therapists and they basically dedicate their life to their job. Most of them are working six days a week and work weekends. For me I feel that my supervisor actually lets her job consume her life and everything she does even outside work is related towards her position at the hospital. However for me I think I am motivated worker myself but I do not let a job consume my life, I like to engage in other activities outside my job. They actually asked to me to switch my major but I didn't want to because I know if I did and I worked there I would in sense have no life outside of my job.

I think it's great organizations are social settings but for me I wouldn't want it to consume my whole life, I would like to engage in other activities as well.