Newcomer trying to make changes..

Pressure from internal sources, such as business directors, may limit the extent to which legitimate peripheral participants are able to influence the practices of communities (Roberts, 2006). You may well have personal experience of this already if, as a newcomer, you have ever tried to change something within an established community. In Charles Handy’s terms, legitimate peripheral participants and full participants possess different levels of positional, expert and maybe social connection power. The concept of power is discussed in Block 1.