These are my questions for my second year seen exam, please help  1. Grey (2017) argues that managerial approaches which have arisen from Human Relations Theory, particularly that of Culture Mana

These are my questions for my second year seen exam, please help 

1.     Grey (2017) argues that managerial approaches which have arisen from Human Relations Theory, particularly that of Culture Management, are similar to Bureaucratic approaches in that they are still about instrumental rationality and control, and in fact are more subtle and devious forms of control.  Even if he is right, does it matter and why?  Explain your answer with reference to relevant academic literature and practice.

2.     In his book ‘Labour and Monopoly Capitalism: the Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century’, Harry Braverman argues that the role of Management is to protect the interest of capital and do so through the deskilling and controlling of the labour force aided through technology.  Technology, he argues, is inevitably used to increase the control of the labour process by capital in the interests of profit.

Since his book was published over forty years ago in 1974, to what extent can his argument still be considered valid today in the 21st Century?  Justify your answer with reference to relevant academic literature and examples from practices which can be identified in work and organisation today.

3.     Grey (2017) proposes that every generation considers itself to be in the midst of dramatic and revolutionary change.  In terms of the world of work and organisation, what is your response to Wilson’s (2014) question “…how much change has really happened; is it change or just continuity?”

4.     Sewell and Wilkinson (1992) argue in their article `Someone to Watch Over Me': Surveillance, Discipline and the Just-in-Time Labour Process’ that, due to intense forms of surveillance instilling discipline, the modern workplace can be considered as a ‘panoptic prison’.

What forms of surveillance and discipline can be identified in today’s workplace?  Drawing from appropriate literature, critically assess the strength of this argument and discuss the implications for workers and self-choice.