Essays on Burchell

Organization Change

Analysis

When it comes to globalization, the impacts are often looked at in terms of corporations and businesses. However, the scope of the globalization and the change management involved goes quite far beyond that. Just as one example, globalization and its effect on higher education is massive. There are a couple of major theories and trends and some of them are rather different in nature. For example, there is what is as the convergence thesis. This thesis explains and asserts that there is a shift towards homogenization. In other words, there is an attempted fusing of multiple cultures and ...

Since the adoption of the Patriot Act 2 on October 2001, strict measures such as the detention of foreigners suspected of a security breach, electronic surveillance of individuals through databases, authentication identities through biometrics, technologization border controls, among others, are presented in political discourse of the USA. The US security and media are the latest techniques in the fight against terrorism. Most Americans feel that these measures are contemporary to the fight against terrorism. In fact, this impression is the product of the effects of language games made by the administration and the media as the rhetoric and imagery ...

There’s No Such Thing as Society

Everything around us from our devices and gadgets we cannot live without to factories and corporations is our society. Peoples’ behavior, interactions, and choices form, or construct, the society. At the same time, the society through the social structure with norms and regulations has its own significant effect on people. It means that society forms the way people think, determine their role in society, the way people imagine themselves and the way they are perceived and understood by others. Actually, people don't usually ask how works society and do not question their behavior and choices they made every day, ...

Introduction

A multicultural organization is an organization characterized with a workforce of people from diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The workforce includes people from diverse religious, ethnic, racial and gender backgrounds, including those from minority social cultural backgrounds at all levels and in all departments of the organization (Wang & Chan, 2009). Virtual organizations are organizations primarily supported by technology such as World Wide Web, Internet, telecommunications, EDI, e-mails, videoconferencing and groupware. Organizations have been encouraged to become virtual to derive benefits that include lower overhead, lower labor costs, increased employee morale, more project options and flexibility (Wang & Chan, 2009). The ...