: Janett Dobler RPN
: Welcome Aboard! Organisations and Politics: What They don't Teach in Class
: Vivid Publishing
: 9781922788337
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Welcome Aboard! is a term commonly used to congratulate and welcome new staff to the team or organisations. Usually this is accompanied by a handshake symbolising a warm greeting and a sense of belonging to the group or team. Besides achieving and celebrating success, growth and profits, groups, teams, or organisations have internal-people-dynamics and political struggles that are subtle to the eye especially to newly appointed staff who are unsuspecting and sometimes naïve to the fact of the existence of adverse sub-cultures within organisations. Welcome Aboard! Is written to every professional who seeks to understand people and organisational behaviours, both positive and negative for many have seen: Most are unawakened. Janett Dobler has intentionally compiled lived-experiences and her career experiences to evoke conversations about existence of adverse sub-cultures within organisations that will raise awareness to consciously awaken and empower those who are struggling to launch their careers and those experiencing challenges emanating from organisational politics, discrimination, oppression, jealous, backstabbing, subordinate-insubordination, nepotism, slander, malicious lies. When you read this book your perspective about politics and organisations will be transformed for the better, you will learn to invest your time on respect, self-improvement as a stand-alone entity, bring excellence to the organisation rather than be devoured by distractions around the workplace. When you practice some of the salient principles in this book, you will emerge as a selfless, confident, focused, and respectable professional who is a positive asset to any team or organisation promoting quality service. If there are scarce opportunities for growth or promotions within your organisation, the whole world is an organisation that offers a platform for other opportunities for you as a stand-alone entity, don't be afraid to explore.

Introduction

It used to be that very year all new Student Admissions into the University of Zimbabwe were published in the Herald Sun Sunday Newspaper not sure if this is still the case, however in my case it was. All Student Admissions were published stating the Faculty and Degree Programme of study. I remember a lot of people who came as patrons to My Family’s Restaurant/Café and Bottle Shop “Fadzamoyo Kambwiri Restaurant congratulating my family and myself for being admitted into the Faculty of Science to Study the Bachelor of Science Politics and Administration Programme, if one person would have asked me what this would entail and what it was, I would not have articulated the question at all and I had no idea about how this programme was going to nourish my career in the future, however now I so very much appreciate this qualification for the wealth of knowledge and insight into behavioural sciences, the politics of organisations, teams, groups including the politics of societies, to keep it simple, everywhere where you are going to deal with people there is politics. A lot of people think politics has relevance only on state/territory or country governance and are not aware that any interactions between people also involves politics including close intimate relationships have politics. Hence the concept of politics is abundant in all aspects of life and therefore cannot be ignored.

“Welcome Aboard” is a term usually accompanied by a gesture of either a handshake or a sign of welcome. It is a welcome to “our Flight” for those who fly, welcome to “our Ship” for those who cruise, welcome to “our Organisation” or welcome to “our System, Culture, Vision and Mission” for those getting employed and this can be applied anywhere where one is being welcomed into or inducted into something.

This book “Welcome Aboard” is a follow up to Re-Write EBITDA for Residential Aged Care: Quality Care the Missing Formula? The Australian Talking Point, a 2018 publication. There has been a lot of interactions and discussions about Re-Write EBITDA for Residential Aged Care: Quality Care the Missing Formula? The Australian Talking Point, and there were some questions and aspects within the dialogue that needed to address reasons why organisations fail, make wrong decisions, why organisations don’t live up to their Vision or Mission, as well as why there are mixed messages from some organisations. These are just some of the questions however there were so many reasons why the Australian public was dissatisfied with the status of Residential Aged Care Facilities and besides the issues identified in the Royal Commission Report, the advent of the Covid-19 Pandemic put a magnifying glass to look further into why the Residential Aged Care Sector responded poorly to the Covid-19 Pandemic, resulting into poor decisions being made and so many fatalities ensued. There are far too many reasons why organisations fail or may end up employing the wrong people and usually there is no one to blame because there are so many aspects to consider within organisations before people start to point fingers however in the end there is always someone who is responsible and accountable for some of the failures within organisations. Some people will talk about a witch-hunt, unfairness and all the excuses that may exist, for some it would be an easy find because all position’s responsibilities are listed in a document called a Position Description. Welcome Aboard is a mix bag of everything “Organisational” meaning everything that occurs within organisations.

In Re-Write EBITDA for Residential Aged Care: Quality Care the Missing Formula? The Australian Talking Point, there was a suggestion that the aged care system required more than a reform, that it required a complete “system” overhaul. The term “system” is a complex term, and it is not always very clear on the description of what type or what sort of system it is. This also has been a dilemma for so many to be able to identify how a system works or to identify the system of systems. This is because systems are diver