SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Local Union, Oligarchy

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Ford

Document Summary

Large secondary groups, organized to achieve goals efficiently. Rational model designed to perform complex task efficiently. Max weber"s six elements to promote organizational efficiency: specialization of duties, hierarchy of offices, rules and regulations, technical competence, impersonality, formal, written communications. Bureaucratic alienation: potential to dehumanize individuals. Bureaucratic inefficiency and ritualism: preoccupation with rules, interferes with meeting goals. Bureaucratic inertia: perpetuation of the organization. Oligarchy: rule of the many by the few. Application of scientific principles to the operation of a business or large: identify tasks and time needed for tasks, analyze to perform tasks more efficiently, provide incentives for worker"s efficiency. Race & gender: pattern of exclusion, female advantage . Japanese organizations: value corporations, organizational loyalty. Changing nature of work: information based organizations, creative autonomy, competitive work teams, flatter organization & create flexibility. Control through automation: humans are most unreliable factor. A social position that any individual occupies.