Routinization of Charisma
Running Head: BALANCE OF UNITIES
Balance of Unities: An Analysis of the Cohesiveness of the Student Body of Choate Rosemary Hall
Choate Rosemary Hall, or Choate for short, is a college preparatory boarding school located in Wallingford, CT serving grades 9 through 12 with a postgraduate year option. I attended Choate for four years as a boarding student, and while I was there, I was a member of and eventually captain of the Varsity Math Team and I participated in the Student Playwriting Festival.
As a non-profit institution reliant upon alumni donations for its continued existence and upkeep, the Choate administration desires the student body to form a close-knit community that will look back upon its high school experiences fondly. At a glance, the administration seems to be quite successful, and the Choate student body appears to be a tight organization bound by a shared dedication to excellence. Nevertheless, if one probes deeper, one can find instances when the student body deviates far from its intended cohesion. Despite the student body’s nearly universal dislike of a program known as Sit-Down Lunch, the only protest against Sit-Down Lunch was very poorly attended, and no further efforts have been made to have Sit-Down Lunch discontinued.
John Carroll said that organizations could be viewed from three perspectives, or lenses, and each lens proves “new insights and a richer picture of an organization” (2006, p.3). This paper, therefore, will begin by using all three of Carroll’s lenses to obtain the best possible overview of the true cohesiveness of the Choate student body. The latter half of the paper will dive into an analysis of the student body’s bizarrely tepid opposition to the hated Sit-Down Lunch. Because it deals with the interests of the individual and groups within the student body, aspects least likely to have been affected by the administration, Carroll’s Political Lens will be primarily used in the latter analysis.
Strategic Design
Balance of Unities: An Analysis of the Cohesiveness of the Student Body of Choate Rosemary Hall
Choate Rosemary Hall, or Choate for short, is a college preparatory boarding school located in Wallingford, CT serving grades 9 through 12 with a postgraduate year option. I attended Choate for four years as a boarding student, and while I was there, I was a member of and eventually captain of the Varsity Math Team and I participated in the Student Playwriting Festival.
As a non-profit institution reliant upon alumni donations for its continued existence and upkeep, the Choate administration desires the student body to form a close-knit community that will look back upon its high school experiences fondly. At a glance, the administration seems to be quite successful, and the Choate student body appears to be a tight organization bound by a shared dedication to excellence. Nevertheless, if one probes deeper, one can find instances when the student body deviates far from its intended cohesion. Despite the student body’s nearly universal dislike of a program known as Sit-Down Lunch, the only protest against Sit-Down Lunch was very poorly attended, and no further efforts have been made to have Sit-Down Lunch discontinued.
John Carroll said that organizations could be viewed from three perspectives, or lenses, and each lens proves “new insights and a richer picture of an organization” (2006, p.3). This paper, therefore, will begin by using all three of Carroll’s lenses to obtain the best possible overview of the true cohesiveness of the Choate student body. The latter half of the paper will dive into an analysis of the student body’s bizarrely tepid opposition to the hated Sit-Down Lunch. Because it deals with the interests of the individual and groups within the student body, aspects least likely to have been affected by the administration, Carroll’s Political Lens will be primarily used in the latter analysis.
Strategic Design
References: Carroll J.S. (2006) Introduction to Organizational Analysis: The Three Lenses MIT Sloan School, Cambridge, MA. Ressler, D. (2006, October 13) Community Lunches: New, Improved, Annoying. The News. Retrieved from http://thenews.choate.edu The News Masthead (2007, May 11) Marchers Confront Headmaster. The News. Retrieved from http://thenews.choate.edu/archives/