Time's Harvest, Fall 1997
Small Group Report
Four: Employee's Handbook
Last updated: 11/16/97
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Due date delayed: due on 12/10
Background
We are all familiar enough with the Employee's
Handbook, that booklet passed out to all new hires. In particular,
we focus here on the Introduction to the Handbook, in which management
gives its version of what working at XXX Corporation is like.
Your group will write the Introduction for a
- First Wave or
- Second Wave or
- Third Wave or
- Brave New World (be careful in choosing
this one -- Brave New World plays a tricky role in this
course)
company, corporation, enterprise, family,
or whatever (in general, an entity), filling either a service
or manufacturing role.
Assignment
- Choose which type of corporation you would
like to write for. No type can be chosen by more than one group.
Register your choice by posting it on the Conference (not your
Team conference, but the Course conference).
- Provide the following basic information
about your Team:
- Name of Team
- Names of members
- Provide the following basic information
about your company:
- Names of Company, CEO and other chief
officers
- Sector (service/manufacturing)
- Main service(s) and/or product(s)
- Size
- Social stage (First Wave, Second Wave,
Third Wave or Brave New World)
- Write the Introduction to the Employee
Manual for this company. Your company should be typical of its
social stage, and your Introduction should capture the essence
of what it would be like to work for such a typical company in
that stage of society. While this obviously requires care and
thought, it is also obviously an opportunity for humor and satire,
and... who knows, maybe even revenge(?).
- Email this information to the Instructor,
who will post it on the course Web Site (in addition to grading
it).