Richard Holloway and Ray Evans Harrell seem to be struggling with a common
"problem" of role behavior. One of the challenges that people face today
is the need to fulfill many roles in their work. Each role may have a
different set of expectations, not only for "what" we do, but also, for
"how" we do it. Behavioral expectations can change considerably from one
role to another. Behavior that be very successful in one area of work may
be disastrous in another role.
Clearly, a process for identifying which behavior would be most effective
and appropriate in which role is essential for clarifying and
communicating role expectations. The ROLE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS (RBA)
provides a process for describing and discussing expectations for
role-based behavior. I'd be happy to send each of you or anyone else
reading this list more information on the Role Behavior Analysis.
Tom SUllivan,M.P.A.
Learning Consultant
Professional Growth Associates
412-835-7341
Richard C. Holloway wrote:
> Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
>
> Ray--a wonderful dialog going on between you and Andy--but this
> paragraph just leaped out to me, because I've been wondering something
> similar--
>
> > It is the job of the Director to decide whether it
> > is possible to fascilitate the disfunctional worker in finding
> > their role or to seek a role in some other "production." This is
> > very important because the firing of a disfunctional worker in an
> > artistic production always is very complicated with severe issues of
> > empathy and vulnerability amongst the other workers. Handled poorly
> > you could make everyone disfunctional. The thought occured to me
> > at this moment that even "disfunctional" maybe a role called up by
> > the group.
>
> so often dysfunction exists simply because the behavior didn't fit the
> script. And it is so hard to change the script, to eliminate the actor,
> dysfunction, role--
>
--"Thomas J. Sullivan" <pga@bellatlantic.net>
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