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- Title
WEBERIAN and HUMAN RELATIONS MANAGEMENT THEORIES: AN APPLIED MICRO-MACRO RECONCILIATION.
- Authors
Markert, John
- Abstract
Sexual harassment continues to be a workplace problem. Managers with a sociological orientation tend to emphasize a Weberian structural solution to the problem; those with a psychological orientation rely more on a human relation's solution. While such a theoretical distinction is heuristically sound, it is conceptually misleading, implying that the one approach is the primary, if not the only, way to accomplish the organization's task. The Supreme Court has clearly indicated that a reliance on one approach over the other is insufficient to deal with the contentious problem of sexual harassment in the corporate sphere. In doing so, the Court has indicated a synergy between these two traditionally distinct management approaches is necessary. At the macroscopic level, strong sexual harassment policy must be formulated by corporate executives and spelled out in clear detail so front-line supervisors will have guidance as to what does and does not constitute sexual harassment. Still, no policy in and of itself is sufficient to garner allegiance. At the microscopic level, supervisors must take the initiative to motivate employees to want to adhere to corporate policy because it is socially correct. A one-sided approach is doomed to failure, which may explain why the issue continues to rage in the corporate sphere.
- Subjects
WEBERIAN apparatus; INTERPERSONAL relations; SEXUAL harassment; SEX crimes; WORK environment; EXECUTIVES; OFFENSES against the person; EMPLOYEE rules; CORPORATE governance
- Publication
Michigan Sociological Review, 2008, Vol 22, p41
- ISSN
1934-7111
- Publication type
Article