SOCIOL 144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Organizational Behavior
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Authority: employment based on friends, socio-political values, personal. Relations are to be role-based, specialized, situational, and instrumental. Relations are to be holistic, personal, intrinsic, and of value in and of themselves. Organizational behavior is subject social controls primarily based on to social control, primarily through supervision or standardized rules. personalistic/moralistic appeals and selecting homogeneous members. Advancement formal certification: employment constitutes a career: advancement based on seniority. Compliance is to universal fixed rules implemented by incumbents. Authority is only delegated temporarily and subject to recall. performance tasks. Aug. , 1979: maximal division of labor; dichotomy between intellectual administration is combined with. & manual work & between administrative tasks and attributes & informal skills. of positions. Reward differences, if existing, are strictly limited by the collectivity. Normative & solidary incentives are primary; material incentives are secondary: generalization of jobs, functions. Demystification of expertise; ideal of amateur. intellectual and manual work is reduced.
