SOC361H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Organizational Commitment, Workflow, Kodak
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Jk"s media item: first cell phone came out in 1983 motorola iphones first released in 2007. Today"s objectives : five dimensions of organizational structure, what happened in the hovey & beard case, and why, four points from the case, difference between positions and jobs, the role of relationships in social structures. If they go over this standard, then everyone gets a little more pay: anticipated that it would take a long time before they are good enough to get the group bonus. Company response: engineers, supported by management, refused to do anything, reject the air conditioning, too expensive and didn"t recognize it as a real complaint. Company response: company bought three large fans, think this experiment will fail so they can use the fans somewhere else, several days are spent adjusting the fans, relations between women and foreman improved visibly.
