SY103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: George Ritzer, Complex Number, Communication Problems
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Unions: unions also attempt to attain or maintain good jobs for their members, workers have organized unions to gain respect, increase wages, reduce working hours, and gain more control over their working day. Technology and work organization: the use of technology has long been a part of the employer-employee relationship, one of the most famous technologies, the assembly line, was used to control the place of work. Bureaucracies: we live and work in a bureaucratic society, according to max weber, bureaucracies are the most efficient and rational type of organization that people have created. Instead, it emphasized that friendly supervision and attention to the social environment increase workers" cooperation and productivity. Initial reactions to these programs were positive: however, subsequent research suggested that many of these programs do little to promote worker empowerment because they tend to break down work tasks, much like scientific management did.
