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MAIN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT 503 Managing and Organizing in the Global Economy:

1. I assume "Managing is Theatrical!" You have some free on line books. You can print them off or just return here and use what you need. There are passwords required, but hints are given:
   • Use these for your homework questions: METATHEATRE INTERVENTION MANUAL and Book Theatres of Capitalism
2. Review Theatrics Study Guide to get intro to how we prepare class skits. See Boje's Theatrics Library for some ideas to make your skit a bit more Brechtian.
3. Learning new vocabulary, such as in Table 1 brings you closer to mastering "critical management" studies. Everybody knows the third column, but who knows the first two?

Table 1: Comparison Chart of SEAM, SEPTET, & Managing

MORE VOCABULARY:

• SEAM = Socio-Economic Approach to Management

• SEPTET = 7 Elements of Metatheatre model, I call SEPTET (means 7 parts). SEPTET means seven elements of Metatheatrics. The seven elements are: (1) Frames, (2) Themes, (3) Dialogs, (4) Characters, (5) Rhythms, (6) Plots, and (7) Spectacles.

• Metatheatre = a multiplicity of theatres (formal, informal, off and on stage) simultaneous in a TAMARA of sites; with starring and supporting cast of characters who (1) affect the quality of products and services, (2) enhance or lower productivity, and (3) constitute the concentrated and diffuse spectacles of theatrical performances experienced by employees, investors, customers and vendors. Metatheatre is defined here as the multiple and contending theatres that constitute organizations. The Metatheatre can be defined as a network of simultaneous, TAMARA-esque stage performances. In your organization you can never see all the theatre performed; it is occurring simultaneously on different stages; some you see and perform, but other acts you hear about from colleagues, vendors, and customers. 

• TAMARA = network of stages. Networking is done by the executives, managers, and workers who like you can not be in every room or hallway event; so you rely on the story others tell you; people chase the stories from room to room in the Metatheatre of Organizations. 

• Organization is a network of theatres; what Boje (1995) calls TAMARA. TAMARA is postmodern theatre; it is a network of stages, each a theatre where characters act, and chase stories from room to room, and floor to floor, and factory to factory (in more global firms). See Disney example

• Managing and Organizing the Socio-Economic, means dealing with METATHEATRE. What is Metatheatre? Metatheatre is the multiple theatres of and organization, and their stages network in TAMARA-esque ways.
• Managers manage Metatheatre.

You look around and see a lot of new words in this room. Maybe the next room will have more practical things for you to find.

Next room for you to explore

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WELCOME to Stretch - see audio presentation (or use slow modem version) - If you don't have the technology for this, then move on to next item.