Morgan Chapter 9 and 10

Morgan Chapter 9
Organizations as Instruments of Domination

Summed up by Great Pyramid of Giza

Majority working in the interests of the few

Social Domination
Charismatic
Traditional
Rational-Legal

Death of a Salesman


Results:
Degradation or Deskilling of work
Primary Labor Market -> Secondary Labor Market
Minorities and socially disadvantaged most likely:
Perform dirty work
Lower wages
little job security
Few benefits

Work Hazards

Workaholic/Stress

Multinations
World economy dominated by activities of giant corporations are a BAD THING.
Exploitation of host countries

Chapter 10
Organizations and management theories are metaphors - to see things in a partial way

Metaphors help you see something in a way someone wants you to see it.

Plato's Cave

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

Morgan Chapter 7

Curriculum Theory Visual

Curriculum Theory Visual
Originally uploaded by saltybagel

The assignment was to create a visual on Curriculum Theory. I used the Key Elements of the Instructional Design Process. I did a little tweaking out popped the four most important things.

Students, Objectives, Methods, Evaluations

Purdue OWL

Purdue OWL

Using this site to remember how to write a paper with APA styling.

Writers on Organizations

After reading a couple of section of Writers on Organizations, I decided to write a quick summary about each writer twitter style:

Max Weber: First major figure in sociology, interested in historical development of civs through religion and economics

Aston Group: combined organization theory with research methods of psychology, sociology, and econ.

Alfred D. Chandler: Work focused on the rise of large scale business enterprise in the birth of modern capitalism (1850-1920)

Oliver E. Williamson: Asked why organizations, not what are they like. I struggled with this section.

Henry Mintzberg: Studied what managers actually do as they manage and what kinds of organizations they are managing. Roles can be categorized into interpersonal, informational, and decisional.

Charles Handy: Focused on the changing nature or work and organizations in modern times. Proposed 4 types of organizations: Club Culture (think Zeus), Role Culture (think Apollo), Task Culture (think Athena), Existential Culture (think Dionysus)

Christopher Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal: Proposed new type of organization structure based on effective international operations: Multinational, Global, International, and Transnational.

Did You Know? Global Implications?

Two things always stick out in my mind when I watch the Shift Happens/Did You Know video series.

First, for the US to remain on top we must remain creative and innovative.

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist...
Using technologies that haven't been invented yet...
in order to solve problems we don't even know are problems yet.

When our students today leave school they are going to be expect to face and solve problems that
they have never heard of nor studied. I would predict that these problems will be solved by creative and innovative students. As teachers, we must foster this creativity in our students.

Second, memorization of facts and figures becomes less important each day. Finding and analyzing the correct information becomes more important each day.

It is estimated that a weeks worth of New York Times contains more information than a person was likely to come across in a lifetime in the 18th Century.

It is estimated that 4 exabytes of unique information will be generated this year.

When I was in school, the teacher presented facts to us and we wrote them down. When we had a question we asked the teachers or found it in an encyclopedia. Some families had an encyclopedia. We didn't, so it involved driving to a library. When my daughter has a questions, she just puts it in Google. Today's students have all the worlds information at their finger tips. The problem is some of that information is crap. As teachers, we must teach students how to find the correct and accurate information.