Over a number of years in the eighties, Amish people from towns in Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Plain City, Ohio, and Georgia, were interviewed and data was collected. It was found that slowly but surly social change amongst the Amish communities was occurring. Amish are being pressured towards modernization by american capitalist values such as maximum efficiency, quality control by standardization, and most of all competion. It difficult for small Amish farmers to compete with factory farms and large agri-businesses, when their beliefs and values do not allow them access to the necessary resources, and strongly discourage competition for it leads to pride. But in order to survive the Amish are cautiously making minor changes, such as allowing the use of tractors, as long as the wheels are steel not rubber to limit mobility.
The government created camps in attempt to provide this basic support. The camps nonetheless did provide some senses of security, and the people were receiving better treatments. However, the despite the government’s effort to protect them, the farmers were still constantly in jeopardy due to the inability of finding rightful jobs to feed the family, and also being threatened by wealthy landowners trying to sabotage their unity, pushing them to their limit. In this battle between the rich and the poor, the government did not help the poor very much, because the government was passive and was incapable of solving the ultimate problem,
Stagecoach presents an odd family. Each member comes from a different background and might not have anything in common with each other, but in their respective purpose of the trip, each much work together as a unit in order to survive. In Stagecoach, the goal is group interaction, which affirms the group over the pettiness of the individuals. Each character is merely a part of the whole being that is the group. Their dangers are self-created but are group expressed; that is, they are groups tensions, which are alleviated when the group becomes united as the pretenses and protections of the town are stripped away.
Christie argues that another reason why the state has been allowed to steal our conflicts is because courts are no longer located in the communities where citizens live, but rather in “administrative centres of towns”. These buildings are very large and difficult to navigate through, both physically and functionally. They are very formal edifices which are comprised of many rules and procedures. These buildings and the individuals within them are very intimidating to common people. Because of this complexity, Christie argues that there is “a lack of important audiences”, namely those individuals about whom the conflict pertains.
Generally, the authoritarian leadership style is considered to be the more traditional type. In the past most businesses operated under the assumption that there were not effective reasons to discuss decisions with staff before making significant changes. This rather militant style of operating businesses can be visualized as a top-down approach; decisions come from above and trickle to those below. This is mostly effective, but leaves the people on the bottom, oftentimes the ones actually doing the labor, with no voice about how to perform their daily work activities. Over time management concepts have evolved into modern techniques that rely more on listening to and understanding the needs of employees as more businesses realize how much more productive employees can be when they have some control in their team or work environment.
Chapter5. Explain why unions are formed. * Work and Job Conditions Explanation * Alienation Theory—the influence of machinery * Loss of personal contact with labor and products produced * Loss of personal involvement in the work * Pace of work estranging workers from each other * Scarcity Consciousness Theory—jobs are difficult to obtain and retain * Employees believe unions protect jobs by: * Negotiating work rules and apprenticeship programs. * Bargaining seniority and layoff provisions. * Agreeing to grievance procedures.
Whether it was to try to help their parents make more money, or to feed themselves, they would work. Some of the problems the workers would have were the lack of time and of money. They worked under very poor conditions, and did not have many privileges. Incidents like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory had major effects on the way the escapes in buildings were designed. Anyways all these incidents, made a difference, the government
Wright Mills said that the sociological key to American uneasiness could be found in the over organization of society. “"The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job, family and neighborhood they often seem driven by forces they can neither understand nor govern (Summers, J 2006 P.1)." It is important to look at the everyday man and their everyday mundane tasks that they are constantly focused on, when breaking into the mundane and adding a factor that is not normally there it can cause fear and it can cause an outbreak of anxiety and in the case of communism it also created fear. “His argument met with criticism from all sides. "I look forward to the time when Mr. Mills hands back his prophet's robes and settles down to being a sociologist again," Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote in The New York Post.
Labor Unions and working Conditions. Working conditions were part of the problems that Labor Unions took care of. At the beginning of the industrial Revolution there were not many laws made for working field, without laws or having being told how to have a company/factory kept, owners were too uncaring and paid a little attention to the cleanliness of the business but more to the profit that was being made. Also owners were not paying their employees enough money, and the factories were unsafe. The cause of the problem was that owners were selfish and very greedy.
Poor decision making in the workplace can be contributed to several factors to include; not realizing when and why one needs to make a decision; failure to remember goals. According to Business Law, “while confidence is a personal trait essential to success, overconfidence or over optimism is one of the most common reasons for bad decisions.” Failure to understand an issue and failure to commit resources and act on the decision that was made is also a common characteristic of a poor decision maker. Within the workplace most managers are paid to make decisions that will have a great effect on the company and the employees, but most managers are Decision Making and Ethical Behavior 2 unable to make those decisions that are ethical and sound decisions