Division of Labor Flashcards
Leroy Jenkins
World of Warcraft example
Tower of Babel
God takes away communication from the people to lessen their power. They cant communicate so they cant build a tower to heaven.
“come let us down and confuse their language”
Tower of Babel reading
Take language away, take organization away.
“youre right not because others agree with you, but because your facts are right”
Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway
“Make a fool of yourself”
Richard Branson, Virgin Airways
“Recognize the skills and traits that you don’t possess and hire people who have them”
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks
“Be yourself”
Jack Welch, business executive
“When you negotiate, leave a little something on the table”
Dick Parsons, Time Warner CEO
“First get the cow out of the ditch”
Anne Mulcahy, Xerox CEO
“Get good or get out”
Peter Drucker
“You can learn from anyone”
Clayton Christensen
Fundamental humanity- you can learn from anyone
Feedback analysis
(Drucker 1999) When you take a key decision write down your expectations and what could happen. Later compare your expectations with your results.
Adam Smith
Father of Capitalism, author of Wealth of Nations
Wealth of Nations
Book on the power of division of labor, talks about how divison of labor creates wealth, pin factory example
1776
Wealth of Nations came out, Birth of America
Smiths opening example
Pin factory and how division of labor can turn one man making one pin a day to a group making 48,000 in one day. Takes craftwork out of pin making.
credit card number theft
(Newman) Criminals use division of labor when stealing credit cards, buying, and selling them.
card malls or card forums
Places where criminals buy and sell stolen credit cards in order to not get caught
Moses
Moses freed the jews from slavery. Messenger between good and the people. If the people had a problem they would go to moses instead of god. Jethro tells moses to delegate the people so he doesnt have answer to the small problems
Jethro
Moses father in law. Tells moses to not just delegate but to teach the people to make certain people rulers so they can carry out all the small problems and let moses handle the big problems.
captains of 10
Delegation- 10 people rule 100. 100 people rule 1000 and so on. This makes problem solving more efficient
delegation
leader over different sections. leader of all sections is the CEO.
Henry Ford
Started the first mass production of motor vehicles. Skilled managers not laborers. Took the craftwork out of manufacturing. Assembly line.
“the net result of the application of my principles is the reduction of the necessity for thought on the part of the worker and the movements to a minimum”
Wanted the workers to require as little movement and thinking as possible to maximize the amount of work they could complete in a day.
fordism
(Harvey 2004) the set of ideas Henry Ford characterized as “power, accuracy, economy, system, continuity, speed, and repetition.”
Ricardo Semler
CEO and Prez of Semco. Author of “Managing w/o Mangers”. Employees set their own hours, wages, access to company books, vote, etc.
Semco
Company that produces marine pumps, digital scanners, dishwashers, mixeing equipment from bubble gum to rocket fuel.
“Managing without Managers”
Managers but the company operates democratically. They have a lot of freedom in their decisions within the company.
Wikipedia
Online encyclopedia that started with all volunteers at first. Largest free encyclopedia, 6th largest website. Example of division of labor with hierarchy.
Wikipedia administrator
(Simonite 2013) They are elected, delete pages, block users, and gives roles to other users. Small group of leaders in the hierarchy.
Wikipedia bureaucrat
elected, has power over other accounts, and has power to deploy bots. They are editors that view changes, bots get rid of vandalism and bad edits
Wikipedia oversighter
Can hide deleted content from the history logs of article pages.
Wikipedia Ombudsman
Investigate complaints that beaurcrats use to infringe and editors privacy
