Week 5, blog 4

The web lecture “Democracy & Dialogue” explains five different democratic models listed below.
1) Procedural Democracy
2) Competitive Democracy
3) Participatory Democracy
4) Deliberative Democracy
5) Dialogic Democracy

I will elaborate on my personal experiences with the Dialogic Democracy. Since I support Human Resources software applications at a university, I deal with Recruitment, Payroll, Benefits, Retirement, etc. Anytime there are policy changes from the Chancellor’s office, software changes from the Software vendor, or customized changes that our campus needs, we have to bring together the various stakeholders in the campus community where collaborative inquiry, participation, and dialogue happens. The items we discuss in our meetings impact all employees, including student employees on campus. I am proud to say that each time we meet, we find ourselves making authentic dialogue by communicating genuinely despite our different roles and perspectives. Just like the professor mentioned, this process is always time consuming. The rate at which problems are solved and decisions are made at our campus about Human Resource processes and software use are much slower than ideal expectations of this fast-paced world.