SOC101 Introduction to Sociology Assignment No.01 Fall Semester 2013

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The basic purpose of this assignment is to enable students to:
• Comprehend the structure of organizations for the fulfillment of complex tasks
• Recognize the ways that informal interaction alters the structure and operations of organization and understanding of the problems of improper functioning.
Normative organizations
Normative organizations usually work on the basis of voluntary membership. Many of us are members of some sports club, Human Rights NGOs, hospital, psychiatric institute or environmental protection agencies. But some of these organizations run successfully whereas rest fails to get success. Why, it is so, why in some situations these are successful whereas in others these are not? What factors contribute in it-individual or structural? The dilemma is not just restricted to volunteer organization, many other utilitarian and coercive organization face the similar circumstances and dysfunctioning. There are many factors behind this dysfunctionaing, some organizations successfully tackle these whereas others unable to identify the root cause and suffer.



Following are the scenarios illustrating dysfunctioning of two normative organizations; you are supposed to analyze each scenario and identify:
1. Problem within; (05)
o Structure
o Decisions styles
2. Violation (02)
3. Possible solution, how can you make difference? (03)

Scenario 01.In a football club in Liari, Karchi, the president has been working in the club since age of 10 years. He has spent all his life playing football and had long affiliation with the club. As he is the most experienced person who has served the team for 30 years so, he has also been engaged in advisory committee, coaching, managing teams and is representative in states football association. His efforts and expertise are acknowledged by all and he is respected by all the people. He knows much as compared to others so trivial matters are also decided by him. This made him the linchpin in everything the club did resultantly his work load increased and his health has suffered under pressure. No one is delegated the authority to work autonomously, and feels apprehension of making the wrong decision without first getting his input.

Scenario 02.
An association is established by mothers in Lahore as school-mothers group in order to discuss the issues of their kids admitted in the school. A new lady joined the group who has three children in nearby school. As she has prior experience of such type of association, so the president of the association overloaded her with multi tasks which were pending for last few years. In order to establish the monopoly, the president did not give any background or historical information of the projects to that women resultantly she was overwhelmed and frustrated and left the association.

Learning Outcomes:After attempting this assignment student will be able to:• Understand the structure of normative organizations and its functioning
• Apply their analytical skills to sort out the issues of organizational improper functioning
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Normative Organizations:

The ultimate kind of official business is really a normative business, that keeps manage via discussed ethical dedication. Regular membership within normative businesses is actually solely non-reflex. Individuals sign up for simply because they would like to or even due to a powerful, good feeling associated with responsibility. People interact to advertise an essential interpersonal trigger. Church buildings, politics events, as well as fraternities tend to be types of normative businesses. People sign up for under your own accord as well as reveal an optimistic feeling associated with oneness as well as objective.

You need to observe that not every official businesses match nicely in to these types of 3 groups. A business might have features of 3 kinds of official businesses. Nevertheless, it will always be the situation which you will see the dominating class.

For instance, the actual army might be regarded as practical simply because a few people sign up for to get particular advantages. These people barter their own support for that remuneration these people obtain. The actual army may be regarded as normative simply because a few people sign up for from social obligation. They've a powerful feeling associated with ethical responsibility as well as consider excellent satisfaction within their regular membership. Nevertheless, whenever taking into consideration the army in general, it's mainly the coercive business due to the firm framework as well as manage.

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Features:

Specialty area as well as department associated with work: organizational objectives tend to be split in to specific duties.

Hierarchy of offices: bureaucracies tend to be up and down businesses, along with couple of individuals at the very top and several at the end.

Written rules and regulations: people associated with bureaucracies aren't likely to improvise however to follow along with particular recommendations as well as methods.

Specialized proficiency: people associated with bureaucracies tend to be employed in line with the skills (as in opposition to conventional patronage) as well as examined regularly.

Impersonality: inside a paperwork, jobs issue, not really the actual those who take up all of them. Relationships provide standing as well as part, not really individual elements.

Official, created marketing communications: bureaucracies depend on memos in addition to recognized reviews continued documents because information.

Complications:


Alienation: due to the impersonal atmosphere, people associated with bureaucracies often really feel shut off in one an additional and also the organization’s objectives.

Ritualism: ritualistic conduct happens whenever bureaucrats turn out to be solely centered on following a guidelines instead of really obtaining points carried out. Ritualism helps prevent creativeness as well as accounts for “red mp3, � that's, the actual overstated as well as ineffective preoccupation using the rules.

Self-perpetuation: even though this satisfies it's objectives, the paperwork in no way vanishes. This redefines it's objectives to stay running a business. Whenever Prohibition had been repealed in the usa within 1933, the federal government companies redefined their own objectives because battling the actual visitors additional ingredients instead of near.

Educated inability: bureaucracies function effectively once they encounter instances which drop inside their recommendations however bureaucrats aren't educated to cope with uncommon problems. In such instances, these people often “pass the actual buck� to some exceptional instead of try to look for an innovative answer.