Changing Families: Impact of the Family
An Arab-American family in Dearborn, Michigan, a lesbian couple and their daughter in San Francisco, California, and a family living among the Amish in Pennsylvania are profiled. They illustrate how living in a family has an enormous impact on nea...
All Together: Organizational Culture: Rules and Conformity
Many organizations are intolerant of ideas and viewpoints that don't fit into their culture. The result in some cases is a kind of "group-think" or conformity that can severely undermine an organization's effectiveness.
All Together: Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management
Frederick Winslow Taylor's approach to management, known as scientific management, involved breaking a job down into its component parts and structuring the work flow so that each part could be done as efficiently as possible. Although it was very e...
All Together: Growth of Organizations, The
Modern societies are comprised of millions of organizations. The number has dramatically increased over the past hundred years as society has become more industrialized and more productive.