SOCB58H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bookexpo America, Counterpoint, Organizational Storytelling
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Cultural communities as existing both spatially (geographically) and relationally (based on shared interests) Transmission mechanisms oral cultures, print cultures, ict cultures as a means of going from one relationship to the other: culture and motivation . Complex organizations and formal organizations distinguish between businesses and social organizations. First way to motivate the workers is economic incentives maybe they will act more in the interest of the company, if compensating them more. Economic incentives do not really work because everyone works at different paces and therefore people may seek (cid:449)ays to (cid:272)heat the syste(cid:373) or (cid:449)ork u(cid:374)der (cid:862)perfor(cid:373)ati(cid:448)ity(cid:863). They are also (cid:374)ot gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) out to e(cid:448)eryo(cid:374)e is (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) the (cid:374)otio(cid:374) of (cid:862)hard (cid:449)ork(cid:863) there(cid:271)y (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g (cid:449)orkers (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete (cid:449)ith one another for the economic incentives. Organizational structures create less levels of hierarchy and more levels of autonomy. Tryi(cid:374)g to (cid:373)ake (cid:449)orkers (cid:373)ore (cid:373)oti(cid:448)ated (cid:271)y (cid:373)aki(cid:374)g the (cid:862)orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)al stru(cid:272)ture flatter(cid:863)
