ADM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Trade Union

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Administration
• Course: ADM 1301
• Professor: David Delcorde

Document Summary

Who is included: the community, united way, foundations (maytree, atkinson, imagine canada, kids help phone, caledon institute, planned parenthood, sun youth, charities. Overall characteristics: smaller, more cooperative, less hierarchical, large number of women relative to men, less emphasis on private accumulation and minimizing cost, more emphasis on public goods and maximizing participation, activities are more labour intensive, importance is placed on gratitude, obligation, generalized reciprocity, and symbols. Can occur within organizations: professors, accountants, auditors, hr community", finance community", senior management community". Somewhat different from the other two sectors: in the economic segment, emerging issues are translated into opportunities for profit sorting mechanisms are supply and demand in the context of competition, in the political segment, the gov"t must learn from the values and views of its citizens following which the sorting mechanism is redistribution and coercion. Which aspects of civil society were apparent in this video: strategic partnerships, trust, collaboration, networks, reciprocity, norms and values.