Power and Profit in Hierarchical Organizations

Anarchism is a commonly misunderstood social and political ideology, yet it has remarkable affinities and commonalities with many contemporary global social movements. While most current social movement theories either poorly or inadequately explain the anarchist movement, the new social movement (NSM) theories describe many characteristics closely synonymous with anarchism. Due to the historically confused and contradictory discourse around NSMs and NSM theories, I adopt two distinct approaches here, by (1) considering what conditions or factors lead to the current movement moment and (2) evaluating the “objective” analysis of certain movement qualities. This chapter analyzes anarchism and anarchist movements via six primary characteristics of NSM theories, and finds a great deal of compatibility. Specifically, anarchism has grown beyond—but not completely—industrial conflict and politics, broadened to include new social constituencies such as middle class participants, used anti-hierarchical organizations and networks, engaged in symbolic direct actions, used a strategic and self-limiting radicalism, and has created new anarchist identities. However, modern anarchism may be differentiated from other NSMs (like ecological and LGBT-rights movements) by certain unique characteristics, including revolutionary anti-statism, radical practicality, anti-capitalism, and a degree of core compatibility with classical anarchism. The strategic and tactical benefits of these characteristics are discussed.

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IT Training as a Strategy for Business Productivity in Developing Countries

Information Communication Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-949-6.ch217 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 3101-3111

Author(s):

Shirish C. Srivastava ◽

Thompson S.H. Teo

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Management Training ◽

Training Needs ◽

It Adoption ◽

Delivery Methods ◽

Training Requirements ◽

Training Needs Assessment ◽

Hierarchical Organizations ◽

It Training ◽

Operational Issues

Most existing studies on technology training address the operational issues of training process (e.g., training needs assessment, learning, delivery methods, etc.). The strategic concerns of IT training for enhancing business productivity largely are not addressed by the current literature. In this article, we explore the strategic concerns of IT training in hierarchical organizations, which are typically prevalent in developing countries. We synthesize various ideas in the literature on change management, training needs analysis, and IT adoption in order to evolve a strategic IT training framework for hierarchical organizations. The proposed framework recognizes the differences in IT training requirements for different levels of employees and suggests a differentiated training content for different segments of employees. The training framework provides an actionable and comprehensive tool that can be used for systematically planning IT training for enhancing productivity of organizations.

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Investigating Online Unmanaged Organization

10.1093/oso/9780198860679.003.0015 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 291-308

Author(s):

Adriana Wilner ◽

Tania Pereira Christopoulos ◽

Mario Aquino Alves

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Organizational Culture ◽

Human Resource ◽

Qualitative Methodology ◽

The Internet ◽

Hierarchical Organizations ◽

Resource Politics ◽

Culture Work

The purpose of this chapter is to illustrate how to collect and analyse narratives about organizations provided by employees on the internet. Blogs, social media, and employee review platforms give a rich dataset for investigating how employees make sense of different aspects of organizational culture, work, and human resource politics and practices. We present challenges and paths to do this kind of research using antenarrative analysis (Boje, 2001)—a proper qualitative methodology to deal with fragmented narratives that are typical on the internet. We studied narratives from employees about non-hierarchical organizations archived on Glassdooor, the main global employee review platform.

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Hierarchical Organizations and a Supporting Software Architecture for Floating Car Data

10.1109/sasow.2008.30 ◽

2008 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robrecht Haesevoets ◽

Danny Weyns ◽

Tom Holvoet ◽

Wouter Joosen ◽

Paul Valckenaers

Keyword(s):

Software Architecture ◽

Floating Car Data ◽

Hierarchical Organizations

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