Running Head Binary Hierarchy

Binary Hierarchy

Binary Hierarchy

Introduction

Many competing visions of the future of employment exist. Indeed, there are near enough as many visions as there are commentators. For some, the future of organization is full of promise and hope, for others it is full of despair. For some, far-reaching and deep-seated changes are about to take place, for others, the future will be much like the present apart from a few minor changes at the margins. Some visions of the future are written as scientifically rigorous descriptions, others as prescriptions of what should be (Milkman 1998).

With such a diverse array of competing voices and writing styles, it might be thought that somebody would have attempted to review the multitude of claims about the future of employment (Ransome 2005). Until now, however, most reviews have confined themselves to a limited range of viewpoints (Stewart 2003). In other words, they have tended to only chart particular islands. They have not taken a fuller tour of the diverse continents of thought that prevail on the future of employment. The intention here, therefore, is to provide those interested in the future of employment with a rather more comprehensive tour of the diverse perspectives than so far attempted and in doing so to make some significant advances in how the future of employment is thought about (Nonaka 1991).

Post fordism

Fordist production is effective when there is no or very little product and consumer differentiations, for the single-purposed machinery does not allow people to have many choices. The Ford model T was on one standard. The main criticise of it is on the inflexibility. All the possibility of Fordism's success is based on the mass consumption. With out this, "companies would quickly go bankrupt." (Simpson 1999)

At this time, government needs to get involved in order to maintain the stability of the whole economic system. However, there are some industries in the modern situation do not require a fairly high level of flexibility and yet have massive amount of demand. For example, electronic equipments such as televisions and computers are still produced on the assembly line with a large amount of output. The shop-floor workers only need little skill to be able to finish their own tasks which follows exactly the description of Fordism. The choices though, are much wider, the fundamental technology , production and management are in accordance with the description of Fordist production system (Parker 2002). There are many choices of personal computers, but the basic technologies of the same models are no difference or with just slightly difference. All firms have been doing is putting on different brands and shells. They are still enjoying the great profits that the economies of scale have brought, which are fundamentally lying in the Fordist production system.

As time passed by, the level of product and consumption differentiation has largely increased. The emergence of market economy encourages strong business competitions. As sociologists Piore and Sable have argued, Fordist production does not fit the market, for which they see the society is ...