Lecture 2

Week 3’s lecture was on The Machine Metaphor of Organizing and the Taylor’s Theory of Scientific Management was specifically discussed. A video on the Hamin building that caught fire in the year 1911 was shown in lecture. This video showcased the actual rights and laws in an organization that every employee deserves. What was shown in the video was that the workers had no rights in the organization, as they were being treated like machines. Thousands of employees were working on the same task that was given over and over again throughout the working hours provided, with limited rest time. This shows that they were being treated wrongly, much like a machine and that the organizations did not treat them humanely. They did not only lose a simple right as an employee in an organization, that right being the rest hour, they were also underpaid by said organization.