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the purpose of the remix and after working together in a different
atmosphere the students realised the importance of mixing with those
who they never worked with before; they appreciated the idea of working
as a team.
� Work
This section is about the culture of work and how it affected the
integration of the project. This factor is further subdivided into two
subsections: the organisation or the senior management and their way
of working and the studio culture that is affected by the management.
The culture of work is shown according to the effect it has on the VDS
workshop and the project integration either directly or indirectly
practised. Handy 319 emphasises the importance of any culture at work
on the efficiency of the products; he also further stresses that knowing a
culture of any organisation helps in understanding the needs for this
organisation and the way things work inside this organisation.
This section will highlight the importance of this factor in the integration
of the VDS 3 project in the light of the studio itself and the organisation
as a whole in which the project was integrated.
8.3.7 Organisation
The University of Sharjah as described earlier is a semi-governmental
institute which is partially run independently by the Emirates of Sharjah.
As the rest of educational institutes in the UAE this university follows the
role culture (according to Handy‟s classification of cultures at the work
place) and as the name implies works based on the job to be done
rather than on the personalities. As this culture of work deals in
procedures and hierarchy and the person in charge, this in turn affects
the integration of the project and limited it to some extent. Due to a
distinct lack of communication and the complication of the procedures
the studio could not equip the students with all relevant materials
because the finalised list of participants had not been confirmed until
319 Handy, C. (2009). Gods of Management,
177