Particularly in retail, the employees were the face of the business - the ones with whom the customers interacted. As a result of this, The employment of black salespeople… would undermine the thoroughly bourgeois atmosphere of high-end retail shopping… [and] store owners sometimes acted on their fears that black employees would steal from the cash register or pilfer store merchandise. (Sugrue,
The first department store was established in New York City in 1846 by Alexander Turney Stewart (Keene, 482). Soon after, others began copy Stewart and created giant stores that had many “departments” (Keene, 482). Within the next few decades, department stores became very popular, and people would swarm to them. Not only for the merchandise that had a fixed price, but also for the experience. Before the department store, most people would make negotiations on prices of the goods rather than having an already settled, fixed price.
In Goodsell’s “A Case for Bureaucracy” Goodsell makes several valid points about the argument for and against Bureaucracy. Before reading I too would have assumed bureaucracy is a waste of time and that most bureaucrats are just lazy, rude and tend to hate their job. But now I've realized that Bureaucracy does succeed. People, Americans, tend to expect bureaucrats to be able to do anything. Even when the tasks seems impossible they expect the problem to be solved immediately which ultimately sets the bureaucrats up for failure from the beginning.
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The article “The Science of Shopping” written by New Yorker staff writer Malcom Gladwell, is based on retail anthropologist and urban geographer Paco Underhill. Underhill studies the shopping characteristics through frequently watched surveillance tapes to help store managers improve the setup of their goods and services. Through those footages he evaluated his observations and the statistics to help define his theories with the purpose to make sellers conform to the desires of the shoppers. Underhill, an insightful and revolutionary man, provides a view of science to displaying merchandise and creates a positive experience for both the buyer and seller. I agree that Underhill’s scientific theories; the Invariant Right, Decompression
In the late 1700’s, when America just established its own government, there weren’t as many bureaucracies as there are today. Many factors contributed to the increase in bureaucracies, such as the size of the government, population, and economy. FDR, with his New Deal that created thousands of new jobs (many being part of different agencies and corporations), helped to increase the size of bureaucracies. Just like in the past, there were things that hadn’t existed until today. In the future, there will be things that wasn’t heard of today.
The ongoing decisions that are made by the President, Congress, and the courts are policy implementation (Patterson, 2013, p. 340). However, when the directive is assigned by the Congress, the president, or the courts, the bureaucracy is entrusted with accomplishing it (Patterson, 2013, p. 340). Further, the bureaucracy is also constrained by the budget when implementing various decisions (Patterson, 2013, p. 340). Also, it cannot spend money on an activity unless Congress has appropriated the required funds (Patterson, 2013, p. 340).
These situations (although not always the case) pose a threat to both the companies competitive advantages and the strategic goals of an organisation. It is then crucial that the correct hiring processes and requirements are set out by the HR department before the hiring processes begin, it also removes the impression that contingent workers are brought in to offset some of the fallings in the initial recruitment
“In the Penal Colony” by Kafka, demonstrates the power of bureaucracy and how it attacks a person’s quality of life and diminishes their level of humanity. The officer in the story, he who is in charge of executing prisoners with an apparatus, shows his sentiment towards it but is then met with the traveler who condemns it. The officer does not realize the lack of morality in his actions because he is a tyrant. Accordingly, the position of the officer results in tyranny as he fully internalizes the system that was instated by the old commandant which is what eventually kills him. This can be seen through the officer’s reasoning when he makes his decisions and the traveler’s disapproval of the apparatus.
Bureaucracy is a hierarchical authority structure that is large and complex which I organization composes of appointed official’s. Each appointed officials has specialized asked to be accommodated for. A myth is that Americans dislike bureaucracy but it’s not true because Americans are generally pleased with bureaucrats. The myth that bureaucracies are growing bigger each year is half a myth and half-truth.
After reading about bureaucracies I believe that this sector actually makes the government functional. I compare federal bureaucracy to the honey be worker, is the bee that does all the work in the hive and gets pollen, nectar and water to produce honey. Our founding fathers created the government where there is three branches with in the government but it could be argued that overtime, advances in technology and changes in society we have blindly incorporated a fourth branch as what would be known as the Federal Bureaucracy Branch. The federal bureaucracy is divided up into three different segments known as Government corporations Independent agencies and Regulatory commissions. Each segment playing vital roles within our government making the life of the American citizens much easier.
My experience with bureaucracy is probably like that as others. Knowing many that work for the United States Postal Service. When it benefits and suits the Federal government they see it both as a private entity and as a federal government agency. Although the Postal Service has a legal monopoly on mail delivery (no one else can put letters or packages in its mailboxes, for example), it enjoys the equivalent of generous subsidies that private companies don’t get. It can borrow from the Treasury at low interest rates.
In Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of the Individual in Public Services, Lipsky defines street-level bureaucrats as the “teachers, police officers and other law enforcement personnel, social workers, judges, public lawyers and other court officers, health workers, and many other public employees who grant access to government programs and provide services within them” (1980, 3). The book provides us with an insight into the everyday life of a street-level bureaucrat and shows their unmistakable role in delivering social services. Lipsky believes policy is best understood when looking at the people at the forefront of the implementation process; those that have to deal with both the government and the public. Overall, I found this book extremely
The firm wants to retain the unique skills that the employee has and these unique skills create a limit to how easily and convincingly the skills can be transferred to another
They are designed to create more of an inclusive shopping experience where one can find anything from bargain deals on daily groceries at Big Bazaar to exquisite limited edition porcelain figurines at Lladró. It can almost be believed that malls can provide an equalizing space. The ‘equalizing’ nature of this space should be approached with caution; it is neither ‘natural’ nor ‘equal’. On the contrary, most malls become reflective of the socio-political landscape it exists within, and performs this sociality by becoming a site of reproduction of these same relational
