Information Management for Organizational Effectiveness
Monday, 08 Sep 2025 | Individual Identity
Does the individual identify with the organization?
And, if so, how does this identity manifest itself?
How do you understand who you are in relation to the organization?
Consider how you fit into the organization that is the nation, the state, the community.
Why, we wonder, and how, did revolutionary-era Americans choose to adopt a radical regime of religious freedom?
Their reasons did not rely on any idealistic consensus
that religion must be separate from politics
and instead owed everything to their deep suspicion of power in the hands of flawed humanity.
Informed by centuries of European history,
revolutionary-era Americans believed that governments empowered to coerce belief
- long the common European practice - became tyrannical.
History proved that, where religion was concerned, governments resorted to coercion.
Consequently, to provide a barrier against tyranny,
key American patriots believed that protecting religious freedom was vital.
But old ways died hard.
How Jefferson and Madison's partnership ... shaped America's separation of church and state
One of the attractions of the workplace is that it is a place where there is a shared endeavour.
That endeavour is called “work”. You need to be friendly to be a good colleague, but you don't need to be friends.
You need to be capable of empathy, but you don't need to constantly emote. You have to turn up, try hard and play your part.
You don't have to read these unless you wish to ...
... but we might touch upon them in conversation
... the values inherent in a given identification may legitimately demand the conscious sacrifice of self-enhancement and even self-preservation for the sake of the larger entity or cause ...
the wish to identify is nearly universal and that it can be beneficial. The caveat is that identification requires discernment and balance.
how do individuals perceive their roles in their organization?
do different individuals perceive the same organization differently?
how does this influence organizational culture? does it become multi-dimensional?
how could individuals' identification with their organization influence their decisions to make ethical choices within that organization?
Something else
Como la Cigarra
Mercedes Sosa was both a singer
and a political force as one of the prime figures in the
Nueva Canción
(or Nueva Trova) movement.
Her entry in Last.fm seems to be written by a compatriot,
and an obit in
The Telegraph
speaks a bit of her importance.
Mercedes Sosa, who has died aged 74, was the most renowned Latin-American singer of her generation;
she was known as "La Negra" for her long, jet-black hair, and as "the voice of the voiceless ones",
for her performances of songs which championed the rights of the poor.
Though not known as a songwriter, she was an unrivalled interpreter of works by her compatriot,
the Argentinian Atahualpa Yupanqui, and Chile's Violeta Parra,
both icons of the region's nueva canción movement towards the end of the 1960s,
whose work often spoke of the struggle for human rights and democracy.
As a figurehead of the Left in her own right, Mercedes Sosa fell foul of the military junta that ruled her nation between 1976 and 1983 ...
the object of state surveillance and intimidation by the "Triple A" death squad.
At a concert in La Plata in 1979, she and her entire audience of 200 university students were arrested and detained.
Although she was released as a result of international condemnation, the incident forced her into exile ...
