Identifying and Activating/Releasing Individuals Diversity
Created : 2004-12-27 Updated: 2005-07-03
Diversity of individuals, as a whole, forms the culture/tradition of organization, or the disposition of organization.
The organization designer (organizer), heading for a new organization, coordinates members' diverse individualities.
The esigner tries to identify/specify the individuals diversity. For example,
Production
Here the diversity of consumers-as-individuals is objectified. The product designer expects some type of consumer's response. At marketing and product development, the designer tries to find common response and to correspond to it, or to find diverse responses and to correspond to them (→ variation, customization, small-lot production).
School education
Here the diversity of students-as-individuals is objectified.
And then s/he designs the ways of coordinating/controlling/balancing different individualities — encouraging, inspiring, reinforcing, cooling, keeping calmed, benting particular individualities, etc.
With hindsight, what the organization designer achieved is to make such a contrivance/course as leads an integration of members' diverse individualities, which itself is a content of the organizational shift. In this sense, the organization designer is the course designer.