SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organizational Commitment, Employee Engagement, Organizational Culture
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Durkheim & the division of labour: scientific management, human relations, manipulating org culture, ee empowerment, high performance workplace. Internships = unpaid positions in a company, idea is that you"ll pick up enough skills during it to put on resume/you may get hired once it"s over. Young people are stringing together multiple internship but it"s not necessarily helping. Can last months/years, unpaid intern = not in workforce (counted as unemployed) like volunteer work (not in paid job) There is public policy about interns: by law, internship cannot lead to paid employment. Sec i = type of management bureaucracy. Stereotypes many are wrong, some are right. What"s better than bureaucracy (what will replace) Sec ii = alternative ways to organizing work + discussion weber didn"t take into account. Beliefs, values + norms for managing (held by managers is one culture) = management culture. Classic scientific management, human relations approach to management, management approaches based on culture.
