Wenger 1

The communities of practice that i belong to is the community of Waitrose workers. In this community i work on shop floor, in contact with management, and customers as well as other Waitrose members of staff.

In this community i have a unrecognized role as well as a bootlegged role. A unrecognized role according to Wenger means "invisible to the organization and sometimes even to the members themselves, creating a lack of reflexivity awareness of values and of limitations". A bootlegged role according to Wenger means "only visible informally to a circle of people in the know, getting resources having an impact, keeping hidden).

Within the Waitrsoe community knowledge is created, shared, organized, revised and passed on to other members of the community, for example if anything new happens within the Waitrose branch it is put up on the noticeboard for everyone to read, usually it is notes of rule changes, things that need to be improved as well as congratulation notices about marriage or babies being born, keeps everyone informed and up to date. 

Branch meetings are held once a month for none management staff again to keep people in formed but management staff usually have 1 or 2 meetings a week, so that everyone know what is going on within the branch and the business as a whole.

This fits into Wenger's model as the community provides support to each worker, providing guidance and resources.

Within the Waitrose community leadership comes from different areas, like day to day leadership from the social committee who plan and provide events out of working hours, they also provide interpersonal leadership, as well as, classificatory, interpersonal and boundary leadership practices taking place, this is all done to create a happy environment for both Waitrose members of staff and customers.