H CH8 Power Flashcards
labor power
- capitalists depend on them to perform the work that provides a return on invested capital
labor process theory
- labor power materializes in the commodities produced by industrial organizations
strategic contingency theory
individuals derive power form their ability to provide something that the org. needs
symbolic power
culture, stratification, and power explain social recognition and the hierarchies produced by its distribution in a social group
conflict
state favoring one group of actors over others and is experienced when one or more actors perceive the efforts or outcomes of other as interfering with their own
cybernetic control systems
align the org. and individual goals by using resource allocation to direct employee attention to performance data that then acts as corrective feedback to the system
market failure
when transaction costs begin to spiral out of control
what happens when markets fail?
control over transaction costs switches form market control to bureaucratic control exercised through rules and procedures
normative control
through the power of cultural values and assumptions to control how members perceive, think and feel
deskilling labour
through job fragmentation
managerialism
ideological belief that owners and managers have a right to control their workers
3 faces of power
- are the silent and hidden aspects of hegemonic power and ideological control
- first appears in decision making forums, workplace democracy
- second appears when the powerful limit or prevent the involvement of the less powerful
- third face is hidden in social practices and cultural norms that shape the desire and behavior of the dominated in ways that renders them willing to work against their own interest
instrumental rationality
- technocratic ideology is based on this and ignores and denies humanistic efforts at individual and social development
communicative rationality
- open debate and consensus
