SOSA 2141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Training And Development, Breastfeeding, Elton Mayo

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 2141
• Professor: Karen Foster

Document Summary

Organization: a type of collectivity created to achieve some objective or objectives. Emphasis on formal and ordered division of labour, roles, responsibilities, trained management, full-time workers and increasing level of authority, and . Formalization: a reliance on written rules and regulations. Rationalization: the drive to find the optimum means to achieve a given end through rules, regulations and social structures. Streamlining, defined communication flows, decision-making and production (of goods and services) Govern every aspect of our lives and ensure key decisions are made on purely objective considerations. A form of power relation that is impossible to destroy; instrument of power. Bureaucracy becomes an iron cage" which no individual can escape. Highly rationalized/bureaucratic systems become nearly impossible for any one individual to escape. Fears that it will make people and life constricted. The problem which besets us now is not: how can this evolution [toward a rationalized society] be changed?--for that is impossible, but: what will come of it.