Organizational Theories

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This paper discusses various organizational theories as they apply to companies in the private sector, the public sector and the non-profit sector. It includes classical theories in organization as well as more modern approaches to organizational theory. The paper also looks at the consequences of globalization on the development of an organization.

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"Based on a study that explored the racial awareness of white union members partaking in the grocery workers' strike in Southern California, gathered information was used through thorough interviews and participant examination, the gender-specific racialization of customers and scabs as articulated by white union members by means of a series of thorough interviews and participant examination was documented. The study revealed the numerous ways white preeminence and white racial solidarity are maintained and created in a multiracial labor effort.The split labor market theory has been utilized to explain the fundamental causes behind racialized labor and the separation among working classes all along racial lines. The central assumption is that racial antagonism initially germinated in a labor market split down ethnic lines. In a split labor market, the prevailing racial or ethnic group develops a racial social group system that limits lower-cost labor of color to lower-status and lower-paying jobs, thus undermining multiracial class camaraderie. This affects the level of solidarity across racial lines and frequently reinforces divisions amongst workers. In other words, split labor markets can help in producing or maintaining racism and racial opportunity in conjunction with other forms of disparity, such as sexism and patriarchy (Semenik, 1995).However, white workers still passed racial divisions in spite of standing alongside with workers of color. By separated, it does not refer to physical barriers, but more so down the lines of where racial unity is conveyed. People of color are discerned as such by white workers, whereas white workers themselves stay ethnically unmarked, or without race. This serves the two to reinforce the power of the capitalist group while at the same time weakening the supremacy of the working class. In other words, this progression produces apprehension among workers and averts tension ahead of capital."

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