ABSTRACT
Realities Anyone planning a career faces three realities. First, organizations permeate almost all aspects of our adult lives from providing careers to controlling our choices in goods and services. Even the smallest independent group of highly creative individuals must have some form of organization. We must interact with all sizes of organizations, ranging from Microsoft with its predominance in the electronic world to the local coffee, pizza, bagel, Internet café, or grocery store. This omnipresence in our postbaccalaureate careers means understanding organizations is synonymous with the pursuit of rewarding employment and achieving our goals. Except for the unusual and most likely unemployable individual, the need to operate effectively with and within organizations is as real a skill and an occupational necessity as knowing how to find a job or learn a vocation.
