The Organisational Iceberg Abiodun Vintura Adeyinka Adetona Darshna Nair Faderera Adeosun Karen Romero Olubusola Olugbile Oluwaseyi Osibeluwo
Introduction
"THE THINGS THAT DESTROYS AN ORGANIZATION LIES UNDERNEATH THE WATER"
The Organisational Iceberg Formal Organisation
Informal Organisation
Goals Strategy Structure Systems & procedures Products & services Financial resources Management
Values, attitudes & beliefs Leadership style & behaviour Org. Culture & norms of behaviour Power, politics & conflict
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Definition • An iceberg ◦ The surface is based on a much deeper (and bigger) reality, yet this reality is usually unexamined.
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Concepts Freud's Iceberg Model for Unconscious, Pre
conscious, & Conscious
According to Freud, there are three levels of consciousness:
conscious (small):
this is the part of the mind that holds what you’re aware of. You can verablize about your conscious experience and you can think about it in a logical fashion. preconscious (small-medium): this is ordinary memory. So although things stored here aren’t in the conscious, they can be readily brought into conscious. unconscious (enormous): Freud felt that this part of the mind was not directly accessible to awareness. In part, he saw it as a dump box for urges, feelings and ideas that are tied to anxiety, conflict and pain. These feelings and thoughts have not disappeared and according to Freud, they are there, exerting influence on our actions and our conscious awareness. This is where most of the work of the Id, Ego, and Superego take place. Material passes easily back and forth between the conscious and the preconscious. Material from these two areas can slip into the unconscious. Truly unconscious material cant’ be made available voluntarily, according to Freud. You need a psychoanalyst to do this! Iceberg metaphor for the mind’s layout: We can use the metaphor of an iceberg to help us in understanding Freud's topographical theory. Only 10% of an iceberg is visible (conscious) whereas the other 90% is beneath the water (preconscious and unconscious). The Preconscious is allotted approximately 10% -15% whereas the Unconscious is allotted an overwhelming 75%-80%.
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