WK 3 L1 Working

Question 1

wage effort bargain

Answer 1

ongoing formal and informal processes by which management and workers contest levels of productivity at any given wage level

Question 2

work

Answer 2

paid work

Question 3

Labour

Answer 3

unpaid work- chores women do for men

Question 4

Marx perspective

Answer 4

capitalism doomed to fail under the weight of its own contradiction- revolutionary optimist

Question 5

Weber

Answer 5

above all rationalization- outright pessimist

Question 6

Durkheim

Answer 6

optimist- capitalist society was different to all others because it relied on specialisation and integration

Question 7

5 components of managerial control

Answer 7

productivity, efficiency, compliance, subordination, goal of flexibility

Question 8

productivity

Answer 8

involves efforts of maximising the output of workers

Question 9

Focus on efficiency

Answer 9

goal of minimising wastage by workers in process of production

Question 10

Compliance

Answer 10

ensuring workers comply with the rules of management

Question 11

Subordination

Answer 11

relates to all the efforts by management to ensure workers are passive in work, particularly not resistant to change

Question 12

2 dimensions of resistance at work

Answer 12

individual and collective action- hidden practices and public practices

Question 13

4 aspects of worker resistance

Answer 13

subterfuge, insubordination, insurrection and soldiering

Question 14

Subterfuge

Answer 14

textual poaching, empty labour and absenteeism

Question 15

Insubordination

Answer 15

whistleblowing

Question 16

Soldiering

Answer 16

work out slowest rate that workers can work at that will go unpunished- banana time and stealing

Question 17

Banana time

Answer 17

playing around and stealing each others lunches

Question 18

Insurrection

Answer 18

striking, occupations- workers lock out management, show that they don’t need them