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Corporate Internal Decision Structures
Creating Corporate Responsibility and Agency by Re-Description from CIDS
CID Structure licenses (permits) a re-description of a human action as a corporate action if it can be directly related to all elements of the corporation's Internal Decision Structure. Thus X (an action performed by an individual) can be re-described as Y (a corporate action) if...
- It carries out a corporate policy as outlined in the charter, mission statement, or values statement
- Takes place in accordance with a decision recognition rule
- Is performed as a part of carrying out a corporate role
- And this role has a clear and designated location in the corporate flow chart
Your Challenge
- Outline your group's Internal Decision Structure
- Create a Group Internal Decision Structure
Answer these questions
- What are your group goals? What have you do so far to realize these?
- What rules help us to recognize a decision as belonging to your group? Procedure for realizing value of justice
- What group role(s) are you playing? Leader, spokesperson, mediator, secretary/documentor, devil's advocate, motivator, conscience.
- What is your organizational flow-chart? Horizontally or vertically organized?
- How are your roles coordinated and synthesized? What procedures subordinate your individual actions under group intentions?
Review and update your preliminary group self-evaluation for Ethics of Teamwork
- Goals: What are your value goals for the semester?
- Recognition rules and procedures: What rules and procedures signal when you are acting for your group? (When are you subordinating individual interest to group interest?)
- Roles: Leader, spokesperson, mediator, secretary/ documentor, devil's advocate, motivator, conscience
- Flow chart or management system: How do you coordinate different individuals and their roles?
Your specific assignment...Build a group internal decision-making structure
- Finalize your goals: (a) Identify and test procedures that help to recognize actions of your group's members as group actions. (b) Identify and distribute the roles that individuals are playing in your group. (c) Discuss how you have organized your group to tackle assignments. How do you synthesize and subordinate individual actions and decisions into group actions and decisions?
- Draw a picture of your group's GID/CID Structure: Organize it as a flow chart that describes the progression from a class assignment to the final group product.
- How does your group collect disseminated knowledge and skill from your individual members?
- What is the greatest challenge you have faced so far?: How did your group respond? Was it effective, successful, or satisfactory?
- Changes. Have you kept your goals and procedures "in tact" as you have faced these?
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