Cesar Garcia discusses two disciplines relevant to his career in the oil and gas industry: organizational leadership and health professions. Organizational leadership involves taking charge of situations and tasks to complete work safely and effectively. Health professions help ensure worker safety and environmental compliance. Garcia will explore the costs and benefits of oil and gas extraction using insights from these two disciplines. He notes potential conflicts between the disciplines' assumptions and theories but finds they commonly focus on safety, precautions, and using new technologies. Garcia concludes the disciplines naturally work together in hydraulic fracturing operations by providing both leadership in the field and safety protections.

1. Cesar Garcia
D6: Identity Conflict
April 6, 2015
D6: Identity Conflict
The two disciplines I have chosen are organizational leadership and health
professions, simply because these are the disciplines that I am going to be using daily in
my career. Also, because they make the most sense to me when it comes to understanding
the oil and gas industry. Organizational leadership in the oil and gas industry is about
taking charge of the situation, the required work, and doing the job right the first time.
Health professions will help me with the safety of the workers and the regulations set on
the environment. From my two interdisciplinary perspectives of organizational leadership
and health professions I will explore the costs and benefits of oil and natural gas
extraction from communities and their families.
STEP 7: Identifying Conflicts Between Insights
The three possible sources of conflict between insights then, are concepts,
assumptions, and theories. A conflict I found in one of the organizational leadership
discipline I am using is that it is ontological, which means, it make assumptions about the
rationality of individuals. I feel like most organizational leadership focuses on improving
the technology to help the environment, but I think companies spend a lot of money on
developing new technologies because they know the profit will increase dramatically.
You actually think a company cares about the environment when they are fracking.
Epistemology occurs in both of my disciplines. Looking at it from a organizational
leadership point of view, as a company man they have to know the precautions and the

2. Cesar Garcia
D6: Identity Conflict
April 6, 2015
success of hydraulic fracturing. Under precautions falls my other discipline, which is
health professions; fracking companies have hazards spots and safety rules that they base
their life on when they are out in the field. We do not normally test the precautions and
the hazards, but some people have tried and failed. There is value-laden in both
organizational leadership and health professions because both disciplines make value
assumptions about truth. That is the reason why there is new technology in the making
and why there is safety, because people have tried to test the truth.
Step 8: Create Common Ground Between Concepts and Theories
Redefinition would be the best technique for me to use since I am working with
concepts, not assumptions. Organizational leadership and health professions go hand in
hand when working together in hydraulic fracturing. You need leadership out in the field
when fracking and safety to go along with it. Both of these disciplines work together
without even knowing it. Its spectacular how it joins together without evening noticing it.
When fracking starts there is a professional doing the job trying to puncture holes to
extract oil from the ground, leadership is involved here because he telling everyone what
to do and what to look out for. He/ she runs the show to do the job right the first time
without any accidents.