Sociological Theories

Sociological Theories

Introduction

For working people is not surprising that the occupational safety and health depends on the workplace, namely the most heavily dependent on the presence of common environmental problems! Moreover, serious problems with the Professional Safety and health are due to the effects of certain chemicals and substances which may also be a potential cause of health problems far beyond jobs.

Despite the obvious mutual influence between the working environment and the rest of the environment, many governments, employers and workers continue to respond to the causes and effects of problems with the working environment, and problems with the rest of the environment and continue to treat them separately and in isolation. This assumes that there is a significant difference between the working environment and the rest of the environment, having the following components: physical, general and externally. The article relates to raise attention to the significant benefits that may arise from responses to the environment in the workplace and beyond, in a more generalized and strategic manner. This is true not only for industrialized countries that have a substantial progress in occupational safety, health and clean environment, but also for countries in transition and developing economies, which have many large and complex problems. (Baum, 2002)

Issues affecting the workplace and working environment

Misbehavior in Organizations

Organizational misbehavior (OMB) comes with an immense price tag attached to it. About 10 years ago, prevalent misbehavior estimated most of the cost, employee theft, run as high as 200 billion pounds annually in the United Kingdom alone. Estimates of total costs resulting from problem drinking in the workplace were close to 170 billion pounds. Fortunately, with the awareness of costs comes a growing consciousness of OMB. As Trevino, Weaver, and Reynolds (2006) recently stated, “Stakeholders, including stockholders, communities, and governments, have placed increasing pressure on organizations to manage employees' behavior in ways that will reduce individuals' illegal and unethical conduct”. Managers should learn and know about such organizational phenomena's, and to develop effective ways of properly managing them. Cost can be control, motivation of employees should be done by leaders, and environmental factors at the workplace are conducive to such behaviors. (Baum, 2002)

Lifecycle

After the initial success in the industry, an organization enters its growth phase. Then it is likely to divide itself into many different branches based on their functions, so that each division can be managed successfully.

The old business model has levels of managers between the top level and the workforce to relay the information back and forth between top-level management and workers. The divisional teams increasingly consist of experts and workers with diverse knowledge base and perspective, thus creating an environment of creative thinking resulting in superior product innovation. (Clegg, 2006)

The goal of the issues of management team is to find a balance between the interdepartmental communication and the independence of each of the department. The same eight options discussed in the previous section are available to the managers to minimize the complexity of the functional ...