Types of Corporate Control

Types of Corporate Control

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STRUCTURE AND CONTROL IN ORGANIZATIONS
SUMMARY POINTS AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this chapter you will be able to
 Outline the principles of Weber’s bureaucratic model of organization;
 Understand the complex ways in which the formal model of bureaucracy applies to reallife
organizations;
 Appreciate the social impact of the rationalization process;
 Evaluate the various criticisms of the bureaucratic model;
 Tract the post-Weberian contributions to our understanding of work and organizations;
 See the culmination of this critical stream in concepts such as insidious power and
McDonaldization;
 Discuss the ways in which the control concept helps to define the nature of managerial
work, and even the possibility of a managerial labour process.
BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE CHAPTER
 Introduction
 Bureaucracy
 The bureaucratic model
 Authority and rationality
 The critique of bureaucracy
 The dynamics of bureaucracy
 Bureaucracy’s iron cage
 Insidious or systematic power
 McDonaldization
 Managerial work and managerial control
 A managerial labour process?
 Professionals in organizations
 Organizational selection and career
 Conclusion
CHAPTER SYNOPSIS
Many of the problems of repetitive and insecure work have been attributed to power
structures and systematic control in the modern factory and office. It also applies in
varying degrees to the more privileged layers of an organization’s employees. This
chapter discusses how the controlling and rationalizing processes take effect in
organizational and managerial structures.
ANNOTATED LECTURE OUTLINE
Point 1 – Introduction
The growth of organizations has led to the rise of a separate and distinct managerial structure.
Today in all areas of economic life, there are complex and highly developed administrative
structures, such changes reflect the growth of bureaucratic forms of organizing work. Central
organizational processes involve the control of activities....

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