1. PBOG
The Sociology of Organisational Life
By Clive Burgess
Copyright October 2011
● The Master Plan
● Patterns of Behaviour
● Promoting PBOG
● Activity Theory - Plans
● Social Relationships

2. Mapping Out a Master Plan
Societies Examples
Development
Seen as
History Local Council's
Division of Labour Organisations
Code of Conduct
Activity Theory Rational Organisation
& CDM Regulations
Internalised Plan
ISO 14001
Activity System
P B O G LAW
Activity
Theory
Rules
OUTCOME Behavioural Behavioural Change
Transformation Stuff Control
Gsr,gov.uk
Interpersonal HSE
Behaviour & Waste Social Relationships
CHEP UK Ltd Awareness
PBOG: The sociology of organisational life Clive Burgess Copyright October 2011

3. Investigating models
Investigating models of behaviour
• Theory of Planned Behaviour
• Theory of Reasoned Action
• Theory of Interpersonal Behaviour
• Values-Belief theory
• Social Cognitive theory
• Norm Activation theory
• Protection Motivation theory
• Competences learning model

4. Interrogating theories
Interrogating theories of behaviour change
• Diffusion of Innovations
• Lewin’s Change Theory
• Stages of Change model
• Input/output Persuasion model
• Cialdini’s factors of influence
• Community-based social marketing
• Information, Motivation, Behavioural Skills Model
• Organisational change theories
• Community organisation theories
• Models of Learning, i.e. double-loop learning and group learning

5. Promoting PBOG on the Internet
1 to 9 slides
Slide Show
Pearltree
You Tube
Mega Clive B
PBOG PBOG Linked In
Web Site
Wix Twitter
Facebook
That security blokes blog spot
PBOG: The sociology of organisational life
Clive Burgess Copyright October 2011

6. PBOG - Plan
Plans as Situated Action: An Activity Theory Approach to Workflow Systems
Jakob E. Barriram
Computer Science Department, Aarhus University and Kommunedata I/S,
Denmark.
A New Understanding of Plans Based on Activity Theory
Based on Activity Theory a plan can be defined as a cognitive or material
artefact which supports the anticipatory reflection of future goals for actions,
based on experience about recurrent structures in life. an artefact, the plan is
socially constructed, is eventually crystallised into a material form, is shared
among the actors in the work practice, is used to mediate work, and constitute
a central part of the organisation's material conditions for work. A plan is a
series of expectations to future results under certain conditions and the
execution becomes an afferent synthesis between the plan and the conditions
of the concrete situation. The fundamental feedback loop in the course of an
activity forms the basis for a learning process embedded in the activity. This
learning process creates and enhances the plan, which was originally the
guiding principle for the activity
Clive Burgess Copyright October 2011

7. PBOG - Plan
Producing and Altering Plans in the Course of Work
The experience of using a plan to guide an activity under certain
conditions is obtained during the activity itself. So, in order for plans to
become resources for the future realisation of an activity, the plan
should be made as part of this activity -situated planning. , it is
important that the planning tool allows for the ongoing creation and
modification of a plan based on obtained experience in realising the
plan.
Humans are distinct in their abilities to articulate an intention,
then to wilfully plan to act on it, and reflect on their actions in
terms of their intentions.
Jakob E. Barriram

8. Activities - PBOG – Social Relationships
Society = the sum total of or an ensemble of social relationships...
How do you define 'social' relationships?
A 'relationship' is a quality which can be stated only of two or more
entities together where each refers to the other, not of some single
thing.
Relationships may be physical, biological, social or cultural.
Example Physical: Cup and Saucer... Biological: Bird and an egg...
Social: Husband and Wife... or Home and Work... Cultural: A noun and
a verb
'Social' relationships are where some entity recognised as being
'social' that is people, organisations or societies, are constantly in
interaction with each other at some level or another.
Clive Burgess Copyright October 2011

9. PBOG - Relationships
Relationships: Relationships when viewed as social relationships....
A relationship is an interaction between two people... a husband and a wife is
a home relationship … a boss and a worker is a work relationship... an
interrelationship strictly speaking is a relationship between two relationships.
A relationship between two relationships:...eg relationships in the home
between husband and wife and relationships at work between a boss and a
worker
Interrelationships are therefore relationships between relationships... a woman
as a worker at work and the woman as a wife at home
By extension intra-relationships is an activity carried on within a relationship
for example the wife having sex with the husband but not with her boss that
would be extra-relationships..
Clive Burgess Copyright October 2011