The New Work Place
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The New Work Place Class 1 of 2
Administrative • Critiques can’t be handed in early or late, only on do date • Remember everyone must do at least one by October 20
Review • Authority at work • Sources of legitimate authority • Often hierarchical • Often derived from property rights but doesn’t have to be • Bureaucratic authority delegated • Impact of types of payment systems • Affects how people work • Affects how they feel about work • Affects norms they develop to govern group behavior at work
Today • Economic Security • Globalization and work
I. Economic Security • What is job security? • Is it important? • Why? • What is employment security? • How does it relate to job security? • How do we provide it? • What is income security? • How does it relate to employment and job security? • How do we provide it?
I. Economic Security • What has happened to job security in the last twenty-five years? • Why? • What are the alternatives? • What happens if we make it harder to lay people off? • Can be harder to get jobs • Employers now cracking down on a variety of previously accepted behaviors
II. Globalization and Work • What is globalization? • What has been the impact of globalization on work? • Is the impact of globalization something new in the world of work? • How many of you have seen, “Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price”
Next Time • What is happening to work time and work location in 2011?
The New Workplace Where and When We Work Class 2 of 2
Administrative • Anyone have critique to hand in today? • Critiques can’t be handed in early or late • Remember at least one of two must be done by March 19. Can do both by then • Walmart movie?
Review • Job Security v. Employment Security v. Income Security • Impact of globalization on work and the work place • This impact is not unprecedented, similar to expansion from local to national markets 200 years ago
Today • Going to Work • Where does work take place? • When does work take place? • Implications of new modes of work?
I. Going to Work • What does it mean? • What do they get from going there in addition to income? • Can they get the same things without working?
II. Where Does Work Take Place? • Where do people work? • How is this changing? • For what kinds of workers is it changing? • For how many workers (most, many, a few?) is it changing? • What does it mean for a worker to be “untethered?”
III. When Does Work Take Place? • When do people work? • How is this changing? • For what kinds of workers is it changing? • For how many workers (most, many, a few?) is it changing?
IV. Implications of New Modes of Work? • How will these new arrangements affect work life, positively and negatively? • How will these new arrangements affect home and family life, positively and negatively? • Evidence more than half of U.S. managerial and skilled professional workers fail to take all the vacation they have earned
Next Time • Technology on the Job