ABSTRACT
In the previous two chapters we have looked at the basic logic of, first, a changing social world in which industrial capitalist principles are dominant, and second, of modern work organisations in which industrial capitalist and bureaucratic principles are applied to shape work arrangements and practices. These two logics are now brought together to recognise a third logic, as we focus on the way the ‘officers’ of these bureaucratic corporations – their managers – initiate changes in how work is carried out as they strive to exert control over task performance in order to assist the survival of the enterprise that employs them. And this striving to achieve a level of productive co-operation (see Chapter 4, p. 79) which enables corporate entities to survive takes place in a context of competition and power struggle, at every level, across the world.
