SOC361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institutional Theory, Stockout, American Stores
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Jk"s media item: the new yorkers, retailers organizations that make lots of decisions. Objectives of the study: study the abusive boss and his qualities. Control through two major means : fear and intimidation make employees afraid of you, confusion and disorientation more subtle, leave employees confused about what they are supposed to be doing. Structure: related to ideas of influence and control over others in the hierarchy, distribution of power some have power over others and some have more or less, power structure of the organization. It is difficult to unseat the leader who has the power: power can change organization structures. Case study: kipnis research (does power corrupt?: research objective to see whether power, simply by itself, leads to behaviours that could be seen as. Corrupt : you cannot thrive as an organization with corrupt behaviour because it will be exposed, all power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
