We need to be brought into the Organisational Management family. We’re a little too wild for the uni authorities. We’ll be shown how to behave. How to do things properly.
No doubt Organisational Management will learn from us, as we will learn from Organisational Management. It’s a two-way street. We’ll be learning from each other.
And don’t worry – they fully mean to respect the integrity of our Board of Studies. We’re just a little out of sync, that’s all. It’s a question of alignment. What we really need is to have a Visions and Values away-day. A sandbox day.
And here Organisational Management can help. Organisational Management can be a kind of go-between. It can help us articulate our visions and values, and help us understand university values, and the points of synergy between them.
It’s really about helping us communicate. Help us share our vision in the terms senior management recognise. Granted they can be a bit fuddy-duddy. A bit stuck in the old ways. We need to show the positive contribution philosophy is making society. Critical thinking skills – we could all do with those, don’t we?
We have to ask ourselves what kind of philosophy unit we want to be. What our visions and values are. There’s a piece of work to be done on that.
It’s a question of sitting down together. With a facilitator. And the university has great facilitators. Make an away day of it. With university catering for the lunches. They do these amazing wraps …
Organisational Management and philosophy: together, we’ll be invincible.
Work in Progress 