Chapter 6 - Organizations, Societies and the Global

Question 1

Organisations

Answer 1

Are collectives purposely constructed to achieve particular ends

Question 2

Bureaucracy

Answer 2

Webers theory of Rationalism: a highly rational organization with high efficiency.

Question 3

Authorities Structures and Bureaucracies

Answer 3

Dominations: the probability that commands will be obeyed
Authority: Legalistic Dominations (sustained over time)
-Rational Legal (Prof over classroom)
- Traditional (Queen)
- Charismatic ( Martin Luther King)

Question 4

Informal Organisations

Answer 4

How the organization actually works as opposed to how it ideally works

Question 5

Gendered Organizations

Answer 5

Some women in male dominated organization hit “glass ceiling “
“Glass Elevator”: men that enter female dominated profession tend to be promoted faster than women

Question 6

Deviant Organisations

Answer 6

• The ideal type bureaucracy makes no provision for deviant organizations or deviance within organizations
  
- The most heinous example of a deviant organization is the Nazi Bureaucracy
  
- Example of deviance within an organization include embezzlement and sexual harassment

Question 7

Changes in Bureaucracy

Answer 7

• Many large organizations have been forced to downsize
  
- Contemporary organizations have become more flexible and agile
  
- There has been an increasing trend toward outsourcing.

Question 8

Globalization and Bureaucracy

Answer 8

• Most organizations of any significant size have become increasingly global

• This is a challenge to any bureaucracy as it has to adapt to global relatives (offshore outsourcing)

• Examples include the McDonalds Corporation and Wal Mart

Question 9

Network Organizations

Answer 9

Informational Technology
- Horizontal structure

- Fuzzy boundaries

- Dispersed decision making

- Flexible production

Question 10

Informationalism

Answer 10

Occurs when the forces of production and consumption are linked through knowledge and information

Characteristics:

- Technologies act on information
- Technologies have pervasive effect

- Organizations are defined by a “networking logic”

- Technologies are flexible

- Technologies are integrated

Question 11

Nation & State

Answer 11

Nation: a group of people, linked through common descent, culture, language or territory
State: a political organizational structure
Nation State: blending both the populations that define themselves as a nation and the organization structure of the state

Question 12

Global Flows

Answer 12

Spaces of flows:
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the idea places flowing around the world

- an example is the global spread of nearly identical fast food restaurants

Landscapes:

- global flows and globalization contribute to greater global cultural diversity

- examples: ethnoscapes, technoscapes, finances capes, mediascapes and ideoscapes