How Can Workers Achieve a Balance between their Work and Social Life?
Structuration Theory
In the workplace, workers try to strike a balance between work and life. In the family context, life casts many demands upon the workers that force them to work harder and meet the demands. The credibility approach enables workers to weigh the importance between work and their social life. Workers weigh what is more important between socializing and generating revenue to meet the demands they have. Those who have pressing demands work for longer where as those who value their social time work for shorter periods.
The second approach is the rationalization approach. Workers prefer to use organizational communication together with sociology to reach their seniors (Hoffman &Cowan, 2010, 2). The seniors should then design an organizational structure that allows balance between work and life issues such as providing leaves. This is the right approach to address complexity of professional and social life balance. Work life balance depends on the employers’ flexibility to permit periods of contingency and social time for the workers.
How Can Owner sip of Capital be regulated to Avoid Class Struggle?
Rethinking Political Economy
The strength of a capitalist nature of the economy has the ability to influence politics and the prevailing political ideas. Equitable resource distribution should be carried out to strike a balance between the poor and the rich. Capitalism creates a political economy responsible for how the rulers and the other people strive to survive. The political economy is characterized by class struggle brought about by the situation of the wealthy and the poor. Owners of capital are the providers of employment hence they are depended upon by the poor.
The ruling class was made of those who are wealthy while the ruled remain in the middle and lower economic class. However, positivist economists point out that the dynamic nature of capitalism can be structured well to stop the owners of capital from dominating the class struggle (Meehan, Mosco, & Wasko, 1993, p. 2). The structure needs to create a good relationship between capital ownership and control of social institutions and commodities. The structure is what examines the characteristics of a capitalist economy and institutes change in the moral code.
References
Hoffman, M. F., & Cowan, R. L. (2010). Be Careful What You Ask For: Structuration Theory and Work/Life Accommodation. Communication Studies. doi:10.1080/10510971003604026
Meehan, E. R., Mosco, V., & Wasko, J. (1993). Rethinking Political Economy: Change and Continuity. Journal of Communication. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1993.tb01310.x
