CMST 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Knowledge Worker, Emo, Creative Class

• School: Chico State University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: CMST 370
• Professor: Shauna Malvini- Redden

Document Summary

Ch 8: the postmodern workplace: teams, emotions, & no-collar work. Intro: organized around issues i. e. constant change, instability, flexibility, & empowerment, producing services > producing things, has led to greater worker empowerment/partic. , greater job satis. , & more balanced view of relationship between work/leisure. Opponents say it rep. increase in level of org. control over employees: precariat: title for wrkrs in all segments of workforce who find themselves in precarious ec. environ. /constantly under threat of losing their jobs via outsourcing. Disciplinary power & the postmodern organization: power= widely dispersed in society, functions like a network, hould(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e (cid:448)ie(cid:449)ed (cid:374)egati(cid:448)el(cid:455) Disciplinary power: power is studied as basic, constitutive feat. of everyday life: viewed on a micro level, foucault provides insightful conception of relationships among discourse, power, identity, & institutions. The postmodern organization: from fordism post-fordism: postmodernism occ. as result of volatile/competitive ec. environ. The fordist org: feat. of fordism, highly bureaucratic organizational structure.