Management and Organizational Studies 3352F/G- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 32 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3352F/G
• Professor: Johanna Weststar

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Underlying sources of conflict (from godard chapter 3 / based on marxist theory): legal alienation: Capitalist market economies are based on: private ownership and control of economic enterprises, ex. professor teaches in classroom but does not own the classroom / resources. But most are not owners/self-employed : workers do not have legal ownership or control over the means, process, product or proceeds of their work, separation between capitalist class and working class (ex. Inherent general conflict: owners want to maximize labour and minimize wage, workers want to minimize labour and maximize wage, these goals are mutually exclusive, nature of employment relation. Workplaces are legally authoritarian: workers are subordinate to owners and managers. Insubordination is not typically tolerated (employment terminated: managers make decisions in the interests of owners not workers. Issues of trust & legitimacy (e(cid:454). (cid:271)oss does(cid:374)(cid:859)t k(cid:374)ow what the e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ees are doi(cid:374)g / e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ees (cid:272)ould do it better)