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Required Reading: Ritzer. Chapter 6. Organizations, Societies, and Global Relationships
This discussion allows you to apply sociological theory to current events. As you complete this assignment, consider organizations you have belonged to specific events that illustrate the concepts studied in this chapter. I am very interested in this chapter, and this discussion will consist of Teacher’s Notes and the short answer questions.
Organizations are constantly performing a balancing act. A human resource department of a Fortune 500 company had to keep track of changes in the corporate structure and the people who filled the senior executive positions. For my own information, I kept a copy of every change to the Table of Organizations that was made for almost twenty years. The company was considered a conservative company with only three significant products servicing a single metropolitan area. Yet, several times a year, there would be major or minor changes in its structure as it adapted to the external environment, internal politics, and changes in how it viewed itself, its mission, and culture. The Table of Organization was the skeleton key to understanding the corporation’s history. Every change had a story behind it. Much, perhaps most, of the story was hidden from me. But the course of evolution over time was there for all to see.
The key sentence to Chapter 6 is found on page 130 of the text. “These organizations cannot exist, at least for very long, without willing members.”
Power is the ability to get people to do something they would not otherwise do. Authority is the ability to convince people to be willing to do something they would not otherwise do. There are two types of workers in organizations. The first are employees. The second are volunteers.
Compare the motivations/morale of the Russian and Ukrainian soldiers in the current conflict.
Do these reflect the motivations/morale of the populations of these countries? You can gather information on these topics from YouTube videos. Remember to give the URL for each video you use. You may also use print sources.
How does your company/organization exercise power and authority over its workers?
Formal organizations are bureaucratic. A bureau is an office with official functions and is bound by a set of rules (Ritzer, p. 131). Informal and Network organizations do not necessarily comply with the bureaucratic requirements (Ritzer, p. 131-132.). As you answer the following questions consider how your company would compare to the Ukrainian and Russian nation-states.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgCNKhtZYks (Links to an external site.)
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/22/the-personal-politics-of-putins-security-council-meeting-a76522 (Links to an external site.)
How would you compare the two forces in terms of rigid bureaucracy vs. a network based on the URLs above?
Military historians compare regular military to a sledgehammer (shock and awe) and guerilla forces to water (the guerillas swim in the sea of the people). How do regular forces compare to guerilla forces in bureaucracy and network?
How effectively do most experts believe the Russian sledgehammer will attack the Ukrainian bureaucracy/state?
How effectively do most experts believe the Russian sledgehammer will control the informally networked population?
What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of bureaucratic and network organizations?
Is your organization more of a bureaucracy or more of a network?
How would you change the organization’s bureaucracy/network to make it more effective
Compare Putin’s and Zelensky’s prestige in Ukraine in terms of:
Rational-legal authority
Traditional authority
Charismatic authority
12. How would you describe your organization’s leadership in terms of:
13. What have you learned from this lesson that you can apply to your organization?
14. How could this lesson be improved?
15. I rewrote this discussion based on current events. How do you feel about this approach instead of a more textbook-based discussion?