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C/HR/898. Evaluation into the concept of work

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2011
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This paper focuses on the concept of work and organisations, answering twelve questions on the topic, which are as follows. 1. Detail the principal distinctions between manufacturing and service organizations, 2. If you had to provide a brief but accurate definition of the concept of work to an alien from another planet, what would you tell them, 3. Give two ways in which the political environment can impact upon how an organization operates, 4. Give two examples of how the nature of work was affected by the so-called Industrial Revolution, 5. Explain what Goldthorpe et al (1968) meant by their classification of an ‘instrumental’ orientation to work, 6. What do we mean when we categorise a particular worker as having a ‘profession, 7. In a recent survey by the Work Foundation, 2 million workers expressed a preference to doing their work at home rather than in the office or factory. Give two plausible reasons to why you think this is, 8. Give two characteristics of a bureaucracy, 9. Explain why Henry Ford’s organization of his motor company’s production process in the early years of the 20th century was regarded as being so radical, 10. Describe two ways in which ‘Human Relations’ theories of organizational behaviour differ from ‘Classical’ theories (e.g. scientific management/’Taylisom’, bureaucracy, Fordism etc.), 11. Explain the notion of ‘discretion’ in terms of how it applies to our understanding of the concept of ‘skill’, 12. Describe the concept of ‘feedback’ as used in the ‘job characteristics model’ of motivation.

 

KEYWORDS: Work, organisations, manufacturing, industrial revolution, profession, bureaucracy, human relations, classical theories!,

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Thank you very much! The paper is right to the point and it's going to be very helpful. Thanks again. Lilly