Essays Tagged: "Division of labour"
changes in management this century
ld be able to build cars one piece at a time, instead of one car at a time. This principle, called "division of labour," allowed workers to focus on doing one thing very well, rather than being respon ... 1910. Here, Henry Ford combined precision manufacturing, standardized and interchangeable parts, a division of labour, and, in 1913, a continuous moving assembly line. Workers remained in place, addi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
The Industrial Revolution and its impact on family life and women.
e relegated to domestic life in the home. The pre-industrial ways of life led to a type of familiar division of labour that left separate and independent spheres of control for both women and men. In ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Can Marxist Class analysis be applied to contemporary Western societies such as Britain?
is by harnessing natural resources, producing goods, developing new technologies and establishing a division of labour in the workplace. As people band together to perform these economic tasks, they e ... nd did multiple tasks. But social class started to develop as societies began to create specialised divisions of labour and the idea of private property was introducedIn all stratified societies, ther ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Marx and Historical Materialism.
ans must work to survive and will do so through the easiest, most efficient means possible. Thus, a division of labour will result alongside with the production of a surplus due to the search for quic ... with the production of a surplus due to the search for quicker and ever more efficient means by the division of labour to produce a greater number of products in a shorter amount of time. The surplus ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
What does Durkheim mean by anomie and why does he regard it as problematic?
with this shift. This essay will explain Durkheim's ideas on this transition, concentrating on the division of labour and social cohesion. I will explain how this path to modernity may lead to a stat ... rial and industrial societies. In the former there is relatively little social differentiation: the division of labour is comparatively unspecialised. Social solidarity in pre-industrial societies is ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
"Private Property rights protect the freedom of some people by denying freedom to others." Do you agree?
ne has a right to own private property regardless of his or her background or social situation. The division of labour created by capitalism is claimed by the capitalists to be beneficial to all of so ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Sexual division of labour
Sexual division of labour can be defined as a separation of labour along the lines of gender. It can be con ... e considered to be a cultural behaviour, rather than a genetic one, One of the outcomes of a sexual division of labour can be argued to have been the idea of women as a separate category in human soci ... e and within the domestic setting, as well as other areas of social activity, such as politics. The division of labour in public and private settings along gender lines will be considered, as will as ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
With the use of the principles pioneered by Henry Fayol, explore the relevance of those principles that are still valid. Your exploration can be on any company or companies of your choice.
siness and commerce.One of Fayol's famous contributions was his 14 principles of management, namely Division of Labour, Authority and Responsibility, Discipline, Unity of Command, Unity of Direction, ... able in today's fast moving society.One of those that are now not so applicable is the principle of division of work. This calls for specialisation and that work should be divided to assist this speci ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Bureaucracy and ethics - debate regarding the existance and affect of a bureaucracy on ones ethics.
en critised, although the aim of a bureaucracy is one of merit this is often compromised. It is the division of labour and hierarchical structure of a bureaucracy that creates an environment where mor ... cy that creates an environment where morals and ethics of an organisation are easily corrupted. The division of labour separates the means from the ends, and thus able to void the action of any conseq ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
GSM - management of change
Organisations are thought to increase efficiency and enhance performance through specialisation and division of labour. To ensure that the divisions work together, appropriate forms of coordination an ... , graveyard and weekend shifts.In the case of GSM, there is an absence of integration to bridge the division between the operations and maintenance. The two areas are at odds and compete for access to ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Examine the contention that HRD, Culture and the management of groups are critical determinates of organisational performance.
rge naturally by themselves. The formation of group at work is at once a natural consequence of the division of labour and an important means of fulfilling individual social needs. Work group may be p ... unities, long assembly lines where workers do not come into contact with each other or geographical division of a firm. These groups will be less solid than primary groups, though interactions between ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Discuss the similarities and differences between prokaryote and eukaryote cells.
and build structures. The cell consists of membrane bound organelles, which are responsible for the division of labour. There are two main classes of cells- Prokaryotes which are cells without a nucle ... its nucleus. The organelles of eukaryotes allow them to exhibit much higher levels of intracellular division of labour than is possible in prokaryotic cells. Another physical difference is the size of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Odense Zoo Case Study
e, which you can see of the organisation chart where a secretary or office lady has been hired. The division of labour is followed by the function principle where all employees are specialized in a ce ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Explain the irrationality of rationality of the four properties of McDonaldization and apply them after you go to mcdonalds
Donaldization, as I interpret it, seems to be, at the root, a measure of control through a specific division of labour in efforts to minimize costs and maximize profits. Of course it goes beyond just ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Examine the Behaviours in the Industrial Relations Process which Negatively Impact Organisational Climate and Suggest Solutions
oyer or group of employers.Before the industrial revolution, which is credited with specialization, division of labour and mass production, this sort of relationship did not exist in its present form. ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Specialisation brings its benefits but also has its costs.
hings they produce or the service they provide. The most common type of specialisation today is the division of labour, this being the division of an overall task into smaller ones to be concentrated ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
Sexual division of labour
DEFINING WOMENWhat do you understand by the sexual division of Labour? What benefits, if any, might women gain from it?Sexual division of labour can be ... e considered to be a cultural behaviour, rather than a genetic one, One of the outcomes of a sexual division of labour can be argued to have been the idea of women as a separate category in human soci ... e and within the domestic setting, as well as other areas of social activity, such as politics. The division of labour in public and private settings along gender lines will be considered, as will as ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Max, Durkheim And Weber
nd Durkheim's criticisms are rooted in the development in the specialised functions and the complex division of labour. They offer valuable critiques in which they do propose solutions from opposing p ... eans "˜without norms.....A condition of society [.....]', (ibid..p.22).According to Marx, the division of labour alienates man from his work, from himself, from nature and from his fellow men. H ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
The Death of Class?
nes et al., 1999)Pakulsk and Waters believe that class can be seen as just one, not very important, division in society along with ethnicity, gender, age, disability, etc. They offer a number of expla ... onships. Property has increasingly moved from private hands to being owned by organisations and the division of labour has become more complex. (Woodward, 2000)Moreover, increasing affluence for the m ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Women's Labour Force in Europe
have also been modernized. An important part of gender related changes has to do with the gendered division of labour in which females were playing the role of men thus making themselves in cooperate ... vertheless, the explanatory power of dais approach for understanding differential national gendered divisions of labour remains limited, I would argue, just because of this focus on the welfare state ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology