SOCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Product Lifecycle, Nomic, Parental Leave
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The nature of work in the modern economy. Ofer sharone, engineering overwork: bell-curve management at a h. American workers, relatively well-off professional, managerial, and putting in longest work hours. Given severe consequences of increasing work hours on families, c health, little research done on causes of phenomenon. Economists - material motivations (consumption desires) or p. Sociologists - management strategies that seduce workers to p cozy, family-like work atmosphere or encourage workers to id. Requires 70% of engineers receive avg/below avg sc. Dictate that employees actively participate in their own mana. Long work hours persist despite tensions w/ spouses, guilt abo concerns about personal health. "milestone zero" - specifications of software features to b are determined. Shortest phase - only 5% of each year. Engineers spend most time performing preliminary c calculating time estimates for completion of diff cod. "crunch mode" - accompanied last phase of previou. Work hours are lowest level - avg 48 hrs/week.
