PBOG: the sociology of organizational life

Relationships in the Digital Age – Progression?

A working hypothesis – PBOG used to analyse Sklair's paper ~ each part may be removed to use for analysis, but then must be put back to see the whole picture

Global watching for the mobile generation: Curious looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture ~ capturing the movement using PBOG the sociology of organisational life

Clive Burgess a security bloke searching for the truth...

Relationships in the Digital Age Progression?

Source:

The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalization ~ Cambridge Review of International Affairs Leslie Sklair www.theglobalsite.ac.uk

What is being done and who is doing it? Progression?

I have chopped up Sklair's paper in to bite sized chunks, the words in italic our mine, the rest are copied from Sklair's paper .

Please look at the keywords & ideas proposed in relation to Austerity measures used today and the words used by Cameron and his cabinet to implement his plan.

I have used PBOG to analyse the introduction of Sklair's work to try and capture the movement.

An attempt to conceptualization of

capitalist globalization. Global system theory - the three building blocks

1 - Transnational corporations

2 - The transnational capitalist class

3 - The culture-ideology of consumerism

● We want you to do this with these to produce that...

● This is how its done round here● This is how it must be done & the

definition of the situation

● 1 Organisations● 2 Behaviour● 3 Guidelines & Plan

The transnational capitalist class and its four fractions

1 - Owners and Controllers of Transnational Corporations and their local affiliates

2 - Globalizing bureaucrats and politicians

3 - Globalizing professionals

4 - Consumerist elites (merchants and media)

● Teamwork● Cooperation● Competition

1 to 4● People Management● Roles &

Responsibilities

The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalization

1 - The discourses of national competitiveness

2 - Sustainable Development to further the interests of global capital.

3 - Globalization

The purpose of the paper is to explain how combinations of these fractions of the transnational capitalist class have used

1 - Competitiveness ~ Britain is open for business... France is not

2 - Business Capture of Sustainable Development through Natural Capitalism and Corporate Social Responsibility?

3 - Globalisation in this context has nothing to do with climate change so not to protect the environment but for consumerism and profit

The transnational capitalist class and the discourse of globalization

1 - The discourses of national competitiveness

2 - Sustainable Development to further the interests of global capital.

3 - Globalization

The purpose of the paper is to explain how combinations of these fractions of the transnational capitalist class have used

1 - Competitiveness ~ Organisation to Behaviour

2 - Business Capture ~ Self-regulation ~ Compliance

3 – Globalisation ~ PBOG the whole process as such

The definition of the situation ~ Plan

Therefore, is explained not as a 'Western' but as a Globalizing capitalist ideology

~ Liberal Democratic Ideology Neo-liberalism that is used to mask State-monopoly Capitalism in society today. ~ The veneer of the 'American Dream'

The TCC is transnational (or globalizing) in the following respects.

(a) The economic interests of its members are increasingly globally linked rather than exclusively local and national in origin.

As rentiers, their property and shares are becoming more globalized through the unprecedented mobility of capital that new technologies and new global political economy have created.

As executives, their corporations are globalizing in terms of four criteria:

1 - Foreign investment2 - World best practice and benchmarking 3 - Corporate citizenship 4 - Global vision.

● 1: Plan to Guidelines ~ Financial Management● 2: Guidelines to Organisation ~ Operations Management● 3: Organisation to Behaviour ~ People Management

● 4: Plan to Organisation ~ Risk Management

The TCC is transnational (or globalizing) in the following respects.

(b) The TCC seeks to exert economic control in the workplace

● The focus of workplace control is the threat that jobs will be lost and, in the extreme, the economy will collapse unless workers are prepared to work longer and for less in order to meet foreign competition. ● 1: Patterns of Behaviour

● 2: The whole of PBOG● 3: The whole of PBOG

1 - Political control in domestic, international and global politics

2 - Culture-ideology control in every-day life through specific forms of global competitive

3 - Consumerist rhetoric and practice.

The TCC is transnational (or globalizing) in the following respects.

(c) Members of the TCC have outward-oriented global rather than inward-oriented local perspectives on most economic, political and culture-ideology issues .

The growing TNC and international institutional emphasis on free trade and the shift from import substitution to export promotion strategies in most developing countries since the 1980s have been driven by members of the TCC working through government agencies, political parties, elite opinion organizations, and the media.I've missed out section (d) as it is not relevant as yet to the focus of my research and the point I wish to make in my working hypothesis.

After Word

Sustainable Development – the political battle ground for global control If Capitalist take control it will become an extension of Austerity

If Socialist take control it will become inclusive and none exploitative social justice.

● If we revert back to the gold standard the poor will get poorer

The State

The insertion of the nation-state into the global capitalist system is facilitated by the transnational capitalist class through the discourse of national competitiveness.

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PLAN

GUIDELINES

BEHAVIOUR

ORGANISATION

Consultation

Participate

Manage

TeamworkConform

Comply

Operations Management

Information Management

Legislative Management

FinancialManagement

PeopleManagement

Risk Management

Key Performance Indicators - Benchmarking

Supervision

Self-regulationBusiness Capture

Meetings

Corrective ActionSanctions

Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012

Roles andResponsibilities

PBOGThe sociology of organisational life

CONTROL

Socialism or Barbarianism

● Choices● 20th October 2012● TUC Protest London