My taking on what Wegner means by an organisational unit, is something like perhaps (again use of my own example) a company, whereby you have heirachy structure, like I use to work in a finance department and there would be the supervisor who told me what to do, and I'd do it - I didnt do it or involve myself with the organisation because I wanted too! It was purely because it was my job and I had too.
I think that an organisational unit is more where heirachies can be specifically applied, where as in CofP they might be harder to apply because although there might be someone higher up telling somebody what to do, they wont be doing it in the same way as what they would be if it was an organisational unit, as at the end of the day, everyone is there out of choice not because they have to be. They are there to enjoy the learning process and all learn off each other, where as perhaps in an organisational unit they are not neccessairly their to learn anything they want to learn about etc, and also a boss might not take likely to 'learning' from someone who is in a lower job than themself!
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i think CofP hierarchy is more to do with knowledge/experience of a certain thing (for example, in dance groups, the best most experienced dancer will be the best teacher) whereas in an organisational unit hierarchy can be derived from a really good job interview by someone, or even just the length of time they've worked there resulting in promotion or 'newer' people looking up to people who have been there longer than themselves
Do you think thats the same sort of thing, that people are looking up at those with more knowledge in organisational unit's for help? A bit like with normal CofP - you look to those with more knowledge who can provide you with knowledge, whereby you can then pass on other areas of knowledge to them etc?
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