SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pro Bono, Glass Ceiling, Organizational Chart
27 Apr 2016
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They come more so with the rise of the second industrial revolution. The owner might supervise and be a manager. The bigger factories and huge corporations have the rise of taylorism and scientific management. They are involved in supervising workers, some managers report to other managers. Evaluate workers, coordinate tasks, their own work is evaluated in how well their department performs. Innovating (coming up with better more efficient ways to get things done) Directing employees (subordinates: people under your authority) Inequality in the distribution of authority along the lines of gender, so the higher up the organizational chart you go the fewer women in managerial positions you will see. This relates to the glass ceiling, it is called glass because you can see the next position up the social hierarchy, but it is blocking, you also glass because it can be smashed if one tries hard enough.
