define what left winged and liberal political viewpoints are. According to Wikipedia’s website last visited 9/12/15, “Left wing politics are political positions or activities that accept or support social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. They typically involve concern for those in society who are perceived as disadvantaged relative to others and a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished.”( Wikipedia,…
Image that you are at the park wait to meet up with a friend. When someone sneaks up behind you and tickles your ribs. You instantly swing your elbow back as hard as you can, hitting that someone in the stomach. Once you realize that you have knocked the wind out of your friend, you feel bad and I’m sure your friend is pretty upset. This has happened to everyone. Human nature still dominate against the nurture aspects of a learned civilization. I myself have experienced instinctual behavior.…
Apologizing is usually what a person would do if they have done something wrong, or if they have personally hurt another individual. However, sometimes an apology is given when it is something that people have done in the past. There have been so many wrongs in the past that some people still feel the need to be apologizing for them, and some people still feel they are owed an apology from the governments of the involved countries. In “A Sorry State”, Mitch Miyagawa discusses the many apologies…
rank people in social hierarchies? The ranking of people into various “classes” is a common practice in many of the world’s cultures. While these social rankings are practiced throughout the world, they can vary widely depending on each society’s cultural values. The text provides a familiar example in the form of the American social class system. On the surface, it is plain to see that much of American society is focused on income and material possessions. Additional hierarchies such as…
basis, with clearly defined rules, equal distribution of work and specified work areas. But bureaucracy has some major shortcomings and is not very preferred form og organization. Major limitations are: 1. Bureaucracy is all about rules and rigid hierarchy. Too much emphasis on rules leads to inefficiency and sometimes their misuse. Similarly excessive emphasis on superior subordinate relationship is detrimental to harmonious organizational climate. 2. Bureaucracy follows an impersonal approach…
Sometimes the thief is a member of the actual company who has a great head position within it, but ended up being greedy, just like the superior officer. This situation can also apply in the military if the superior officer is not punished for abusing his power above other personnel. Approaching the dilemma in a global perspective, countries in Europe describe orders differently as well as how and when following any order should take place. Countries such as England, Belgium, as well as Germany…
Censorship of information continues to be a growing issue in modern society, with countless scandals that lead to a rising distrust in many federal governments. Arguments can be made both toward and against censorship, but the most effective way to pick a side is to analyze which issues weigh heaviest on the scale of a safe country. No country is ever going to become a utopia because that is an idea that only exists is fantasy, but a country that is safe and liveable is a success in the grand…
consist of: • Distantation • Exclusion • Hierarchy • Exploitation First, distantation is the idea that some individuals are racing ahead, while others fall behind (Therborn, 2009). Particularly, inequality due to distantation has taken a paradoxical connotation for in territorial terms the distances have shrunk due to technological advances in satellite transmissions and electronic communication (Therborn, 2009). Furthermore,…
taller hierarchy, or both. Most companies end up building taller structures because they rely on direct supervision to some extent as a coordinating mechanism and there are limits to how many people each manager can coordinate” (McShane et al., 2015, p. 327). Due to the tall hierarchy present in the company, it led to many problems within the organizational structure. One of the main problems was that there was not good communication between the lower levels and the higher levels of the…
The structure of an organization is the process by which it positions people in such a way that all the necessary jobs of the organization can be performed to achieve its goals. An organization can adopt various structures in its development. A functional structure on an organization is a design…