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Management
3 types of rationality:
i. Rationality based on material interest
Tends to favor strategies which are perceived
to best serve management’s economic,
productive and power interest e.g. strategies
to maximize profit, minimize wage costs
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ii. Rationality based on moral idealistic
values, regards certain issues to be a
matter of principle e.g. strategies to avoid ,
resist or remove trade union recognition or
the expansion of collective bargaining
iii. Rationality based on technocrat values
Support the adoption of strategies which
appear to take into account of all variables
e.g. strategies based on an algorithmic
approach which satisfy the criterion of
logical reasoning
Social responsibility
•Social responsibility – a concept involving
consideration of ethics, power and authority
• A crucial area in which ‘constraints and
choices’ have to be reconciled by
