• Post a common normally accepted practice at your most recent job.
  • For example, some companies highly value being on time for every meeting. Others, ensuring that PowerPoint presentations follow a particular format. Still, others have everyone using the same workplace jargon or wearing similar style clothes even though no uniform is required.
• Try and recall a particular norm from your job and explain it on your initial post.

Questions to answer

1. In the workplace, who do you think usually establishes a particular normthe top leaders of the organization or the front line workers?
2. How has your own perceptions changed since the first day of the job you posted about? Do you still think of the norms associated with your organization as odd or have you accepted them as quite normal at this point? Why?
3. Were you surprised by anyone elses post? Did someone post a norm to which you had an instant negative reaction? What was it and what is your perception of this? If you worked at that particular company, do you think your perception would change about that norm that the other student posted? Why or why not?