SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Profit Maximization, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Thai Cultural Mandates
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Organizational deviance: behaviors result from institutionalized values and beliefs, situated character of behavior, position in a structure affects understandings, choices, actions, outcomes, casual effect of institutional environments and organizational forms on behavior. Merton"s strain theory (cirrr: merton (1968) proposed five ways of contending with strain in an anomic society, conformity, ritualism, rebellion, innovation, retreatism. Corporate culture: anomie & strain permeate corporate culture, profit maximization, success vs cost, uncertainty, anomic environment. Corporate culture & anomie: achieve goals of earnings per share/quarter, ricks of loss of investor capital, competition, key adaptation, innovations accept goals/ reject means. Institutional anomie: emphasis on economic institution like other institutions like family, politics, education. Ignore anomalies that might arise in paperwork: structural secrecy, concealed serious problem, info from subunits not scrutinized. Ford pinto: different crash test results from different units showed car to be in normal safety range, met federal safety standards, rush to complete car, risk became normalized, major issue was discovery of callous calculus.
