Assignment task:
For this commentary, select only one of the following cues. Your effort will require creativity, as the ideas are challenging. Try to relate an example of the phenomenon featured in the cue from your experience as part of a team or organization. The participants in this class possess a wealth of deep organizational experience. This task is an opportunity to share insights from that experience. Need Assignment Help?
The aim of this exercise is to motivate energetic thinking rather than to test whether you seem to have understood the selected concept. Multiple perspectives are available to answer each cue. Be creative, but be sure to formalize your writing as well, to meet the rhetorical expectations described in the syllabus.
Please treat your main commentary (not the replies) as an essay rather than an informal discussion. That is, write correctly and formally. Proofread your work by reading it again and making changes before posting it.
The minimum length for the main commentary is 350 words
Use in-text citations, and provide a complete reference section at the end of your main commentary. Correctly cite the textbook and at least two peer-reviewed, scholarly sources in correct APA style (cf. the purple section of the syllabus)
A peer-reviewed, scholarly journal article is the product of studied intellectual activity. It has entered a published venue through the judgment and approval of other scholars in the same research discipline. Library databases try to code articles as peer-reviewed or scholarly, but they err. Learners must apply independent judgment to make this determination about an article. To practice the requisite thought processes, this course applies the following criteria to count an article as a qualifying source:
1. The article is pdf-downloadable in its true published form via links that originate from within Troy University's online library.
2. The article contains more than one page, uses volume-embedded pagination (rather than an article number), and has a volume number. Volume, issue, and page range annotations occur at the end of a reference entry in APA style (e.g., 7(2), 23-29, hence volume 7, issue 2, pages 23-29).
3. The article has one or more named human authors and is in construable as a book review, editorial, or obituary.
4. The article both cites (in text) and lists (in a reference section, endnotes, or footnotes) at least six of its own bibliographic references (rather than uncited recommended readings).
5. The article has a document object identifier (doi-number). Publishers have assigned doi-numbers retrospectively to articles that predate this 21st-century practice (under ISO 26324), so you may find an assigned doi-number on the journal's external website even if a published article excludes it. To check, enter the article title in a search engine, confirm that it is the correct article (cf. author and year), and look for the telltale formula (see the APA Style slide deck in the Start Here Module). For JSTOR articles (but only if the publisher has never assigned a doi-number), use JSTOR's "stable URL" to satisfy the doi-number requirement.
Bridging vs. buffering (Lynn, 2005). Explain bridging and buffering in terms of systems theory. Based on your analysis, should we expect a difference in the comparative strength of the respective dynamics at different lifecycle stages?
Source: Lynn, M. L. (2005). Organizational buffering: Managing boundaries and cores. Organization Studies, 26(1), 37-61.