APPENDIX I - A PURPOSEFUL JOB
Aims at validating
a lifetime relative to
becoming a Doctor of Philosophy
not just a trainee
from a narrow school of thought.
by
H.L.Otto
Atchison Kansas
July 1993
Runner: An integrated
operating personhood.
Thirty-second commercial (73) old
version. I
actualize productive work - my own work and other's work
within the organization. As engineer, controller, manager,
national consultant, administrator, and professor; I have
significantly improved the organizations for which I worked.
My resume details twenty-two substantial improvements and
superior performances. I seek rewarding productive work.
Thirty-second commercial - new
version. My strategy
is to promote functional organization and its
administration. My past work tactics and measured
performance results have supported the strategy of
functionalism. For the future, I want to creatively teach
the principles of strategy, functionalism, and productivity,
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73 D.Lowe (1993) "Career transition."
The
newsletter of the village singles, vol.9, no.12. Prairie
Village KS: The Village Church.
A handout on "The thirty-second
commercial" referenced
a Wall Street Journal article and "How to get your point
across in 30 seconds" by M.Frank.
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and I want to further my personal writing capacity.
Job application & employer mission
Review. The acknowledgement
section of this
dissertation mentioned remuneration for writing work, either
direct or indirect.
Summary. This appendix takes
the updated resume
materials resulting from the idea of functionalism which
developed from the dissertation process and inquires into
their application to a particular employment situation.
The
expert worker inquires into the ability of the two
organizations to congrue.
Next. Even before this dissertation
was completely
printed, updated resume material as a result of the
dissertation were being honed, as opposed to, for examples,
publishing a research article or travelogue article. The
search for Theory W has produced a different Harvey Otto
perhaps likened to a Theory W as a unifying theory of the
author's life.
The expert worker.
The expert worker of Theory W
usually maintains
employment status, in other words, s/he trades work for
wage. The wages then pay for existence need fulfillment.
Theory W also applies to the individual in their own
employment status. This individual responsibility for their
self, not for their employer, underpins Theory W. Thus
each
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employee has their individual resume.
The author's resume, according
to the above logic,
became an important portion of the dissertation. Logically,
this was no surprise, verifying the foundation of Theory W -
the self organization. The formal organization then has
the
responsibility to encourage the expert worker's resume.
In
other words, "Where does the expert worker want to go with
their lives?" This question works especially well in
teaching college students.
In the author's case, this dissertation
gave rise to
the personal service business called Function View, in the
event that the author would choose this direction, however
unlikely. In the consulting business previously,
functionalism provided the underlying theme of his services,
and the dissertation brought out this basic of his expert
work.
Through circumstances, the author
has minimized the
payments for existence need fulfillment, and used the
released time for relatedness and growth needs fulfillment.
In hindsight, this falls as both good and bad, or rather
both positive and negative for his individual organization.
In the end, his comfort with writing, and thus with himself
came to be better. What more could a life provide?
The author's own case study provided
an application of
Theory W as an investigative tool. The Theory W tool,
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whereby an employer's functional organization represents the
relatedness of employees to the employer mission, could also
be applied to viewing a potential employer. The following
case pushes Theory W into the investigation of a potential
future employer.
Resume materials.
One page brief
Business and personal cards
Two page chronological resume
Life-long academics
Graduate course statistics
Benedictine evaluation statistics
Wesley evaluation statistics
A.A.A.video & class notes
Curriculum vita
Testimonial summary
List of twenty testimonial letters
Packet of twenty testimonial letters
Primary and secondary publication
lists
Community service list
Committee service list
A.S.A. umpire experience
A folio which keeps the above
together
Theory W investigation of Tabor College
This case from the past has been
redone to fit into
the context of this appendix. The materials earned a top
candidate but without a finished dissertation and transcript
I could not argue the merits of my external degree.
Cover letter. Responding
to your letter dated
December 17, (1) I appreciate sharing with a faculty dean
who aims directly at the organization mission, (2) enclosed
find job and testimonial letters, and (3) find attached the
answers to your questionnaire.
The ability to focus on why an
organization exists,
provides the comfort and affirmation of truely functional
reasoning - essential to success along with formal
organization, informal organization, and the integration of
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technological advance. I have administratively practiced
those four facets of successful organization in Business
Administration, Higher Education Administration, and college
teaching. My ongoing work specifically expands organization
theory to the individual. Thus giving the student a
personal entrance into administrative study - a challenge or
call to purpose. In support of theory I offer broad and
integrated real-life experience.
Your materials have evidenced
a purpose (mission)
focus which I admire and practice quantitatively
(scientifically). Your focus has market potential and I
trust that Tabor has reaped the rewards in terms of
financial stability. As for my personal stability, I have
integrated and internalized the science and religious
entrances to a full life - thus I enjoy life.
I do not have an exact understanding
of the
requirements of your evangelical Mennonite Brethren theology
therefore I attempt to state my life faith in terms
paralleling the Tabor mission which I have amplified with
table I53. My life faith sympathizes with (a) Alderfer's
statement of ERG motivators, (b) Jesus' love as satisfaction
in life, (c) the Jesuit educational theme of service, (d)
Jesus' church as the way to love, and (e) the functional
reasoning of liberal arts in support of the thinking
individual.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Job and character
references are attached, then after that, I continue the
Applicant Information you requested.
Sincerely, H.L.Otto
Academic and character reference.
The idea of
statistical significance applied to the reference checking
process calls for an expanded sample size and evidence
beyond colloquialism. Therefore my profile folio contains
dozens of work related reference letters and written
performance reviews for your inspection. I also have a
peer
review video tape of my teaching along with peer grading of
it. Statistical and written references validate my teaching
excellence.
Liberal arts philosophy.
My teaching philosophy
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embraces quantitative methodology applied to the common
definition of liberal arts.... (61 sv)
The wholeness quality of a Liberal
Arts program, for
me, comes about through the quantitative organization and
subsequent administration (management) of the program tasks.
Depending on department policy, my course syllabi encourage
students to choose tailored study tasks which accomplish
course-subject learning - in addition to testing against
national norms.74 The flexible study tasks, although
chosen and structured by the student, are administrated to
challenge the student to internalize the logic of liberal
arts, including the scholarly closure of those study tasks.
The student can then take that literal documentation into
their future courses or professional positions.
Unfortunately, that accomplishment still remains in the
minority.
I also encourage the college to
discriminate between
the liberal arts essence of integrating course lessons and
the stereotyped high school methodology. True liberal arts
challenges students to evidence thought. And they usually
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74 An important example pertaining
to department
policy concerns course-subject texts and their study
coverage. To achieve integration toward the quality of
wholeness, I believe that connecting faculty must critique
text selection and syllabi content. As examples, I build
on
the logically connected concepts of feelings, needs,
Hawthorne effect, love, and soul - among many others.
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want to align their learning experiences by practicing
integrative growth choices.
Student short-term choices usually
attend to technical
skills. Yet they desire to associate with the experience
which has successfully coped with `hi-tech' cultural
complexity. Logical challenge brings out their best.
I thus believe in a viable and
visible organization
philosophy which provides a never-ending purpose to control
the development of measurable objectives.
I reiterate the Tabor mission
in the table below. The
action-phrase task definition and task sequencing draw
attention to why the organization exists and begins to
document the way in which the mission comes to
actualization. This quantification documents the
organization context in a valid and rigorous style. A trail
of tasks thus unfolds from the mission down to the measured
objectives, and on to the day-to-day implementation by the
members of the organization. See tables I56 and I57 which
begin to show the Tabor organization logic trailed down to
the individual job description.
All members of an organization
have specific
performance oriented job descriptions - some parts visible
and some hidden. My dissertation describes an organization
Theory Whereby a single database documents both the
organization's logic and job description accomplishment.
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One database sort shows the way in which individual member
tasks support the organization mission. A second database
sort lists the measurable work tasks which can be evaluated
for performance.
Table I53 - Tabor College mission in database form
___________ ________________________________________________
Act Verb Descriptor
Noun
___ ________ __________ _____________
1 minister people
needs
2 match MBbiblical
understanding
3 raise persons
JCservice
4 support Christian
context
5 offer LA-P/C
education
____________________________________________________________
Note: Tabor College catalog (1990) p.4.
Liberal arts commitment.
The commitment to liberal
arts education has called me from a prior business career
into the service of liberal arts college teaching. My
Personal Information shows the salary sacrifice.
My Christian self. I quantify
my spirit in Jesus,
specifically in terms of His love. To me, the spirit of
the
Bible comes through time, into the New Testament, and to the
focus word of Jesus' love. For me, the writings of John
Powell,SJ have led me to define love, for my personal and
appropriate classroom use, as three levels - (1) respect, (2)
time and specific encouragement, and (3) challenge. I have
experienced these levels in successful business
practice.75
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On the respect level I can love
all the people of the
world - a sort of general orientation in support of act 1
part of the Tabor mission table.
The time and encouragement level
realistically
delimits my actions. I only have 24 hours each day and
that
limits my love actions. On this love level, I have
generally witnessed college and university organizations
which are less loving than my previous business experiences.
I find this ironic, since I view the higher education
product to be whole individuals - students, faculty, and the
internal and external support community.
Challenge - Jesus' love challenges
into this day and
every day, specifically in the renewal of the logical basis
for His church and the smooth reconciliation with science as
a life-betterment tool. Science can be seen to verify the
wisdom of the ages. Religion being the wisdom of the ages.
For me, a Christian person acts
lovingly for
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75 My definition of the scientific
self builds on
the psychology continuums of joy-sorrow, love-hate, and
freedom-fear - in general, universal good-bad feelings with
a tie to statistical significant study. The scientific
self
acts to actualize the tasks of the particular organization
in question. Tabor students and faculty, for example, are
challenged to act to actualize the Tabor mission. Thus
the
graphic arrows or forces of action are aimed by the self,
with direction given by the mission - different from
reacting simply out of obedience. The spirit of liberal
arts logic thus synergistically releases a community effort.
Many successful business have that love - I experienced it.
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internalized reasons, without being told in an autocratic
fashion. I view challenge as controlled but but not
autocratic.
My love commitment. I view
college teaching as
potentially more loving than a business career. Thus I
have
traded salary and direct family proximity for the potential
of education. My student and peer contact provide me with
more occurances of respect, encouragement, and challenge.
My growth need motivates me.
However, I have found many unloving
college situations
seemingly hand-in-hand with their poor business practices -
an especially incredulous situation when they claim to teach
business administration.
As part of my religious practice,
I track my time
performance - our time on this earth being a serious
responsibility in my view. My life-time currently places
priority on my dissertation and PhD completion.
Timed loving work. In the
past I have been a
participant in the Catholic Church. My contributions to
the
church show in the tables below. I have carried the idea
of
church service into the world and beyond the formal
organization of any one church. My timed life hours are
blessed as a result.
Table I54 - Church service detail omitted.
Table I55 - Civic service detail omitted.
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Serving the Tabor spirit.
I have moved within the
American culture and bring to students a wealth of
experience which fits within the context of a
populace-serving and truely universal church. I have found
the spirit of Jesus everywhere and reinforce that spirit.
Good wins over evil if we take the time to appreciate the
process of Jesus' love. Jesus lives!
I now examine my performance evidence
against the
Tabor list of action tasks, using the precedence database
method of my dissertation.
Table I56 - Performance evaluation to Tabor tasks
____________________________________________________________
Act Verb Descriptor Noun
Way ?
Scholarly reference
___ ________ __________ _____________ ___ ___
_____________________
1 minister people needs
3
(4)
2 match MBbiblical understanding
20 no
(4) another tradition
3 raise persons
JCservice 5
(4)
4 support Christian context
2 7
(4)
5 offer LA-P/C
education 6 9 21
(4)
6 understd LPHLAs-AS knowledge
10 11 yes
(5.1) bio package
7 understd webbed knowledge
12 yes
(5.2) course content
8 understd worth systems
yes
(5.3) this statement
9 choose viable
career 15 yes
teaching
10 understd inquiry methods
yes
(6.4) transcripts
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11 understd creative arts
yes
(6.5) good feelings
12 practice independt scholarship
14 yes
(6.6) external degree
13 practice
fourRs
yes
(6.7) lesson method
14 use personal
resource 17 yes
(6.8) life balance
15 raise healthy relatedness
16 yes
(6.1) lesson method
16 seek student
views
yes
(6.2) lesson method
17 balance self
activity 24 25 yes
(6.3) life balance
18 understd Jesus love
yes
(6.4) lesson content
19 choose life
responsibility 22 yes
(6.5) personal record
20 mold MBchurch workers
5
(7.1)
21 provide career skills
6 13 yes
(7.2) bio package
22 show self
organization 6 yes
(7.3) dissertation
23 show lifelong learning
18 yes
(7.1) bio package
24 fulfill teaching function
23 yes
bio package
25 enrich personal lives
19 yes
(7.2) my enjoyment
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Note: ( ) = Tabor College catalog page and item number
(1990).
The above database concept resorts
into job
descriptions for weekly performance evaluation. My
particular self-job-description appears below and reconciles
to the act numbers of the previous table. This type of
functional organization has and will always exist. My
dissertation quantifies that pure functional organization
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apart from the other facets of administration - those being
formal and informal organization and the techniques of
applied science. My future interest beyond dissertation
completion and a college teaching position, lies with
publication surrounding the topic of organization
quantification which leads to mission actualization.
Table I57 - An individual's task hours and effectiveness
___________________________________________________________
Hours for
Task description
weeks ago
_________________________ _____________
Action verb Noun object 1
2 3 Comment
___________ _____________ ___ ___ ___ __________________
maintain body/mind
75 87 81 act 17 above table
encourage relationship 38
25 50 act 15
write dissertation
26 35 20 act 12
maintain assets
16 1 5 act 19
get job
13 2 2 act 24
pursue exercise
8 18 10 act 15
facilitate students
2 act
24
measure lifetime
168 168 168 seven 24 hr. days
measure effectiveness 33%
33% 22%
History -
Third, second, first quarter of 1990 24% 34%
38%
Third quarter of 1989
20%
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Note: Based on H.L.Otto's current performance. His
strategic task organization shows in other documentation.
