PBOG the sociology of organisational life - Transnational capitalist class _ Sklair 2000

1. PBOG: the sociology of organizational life
Relationships in the Digital Age – Progression?
A working hypothesis – PBOG used to analyse
Sklair's paper ~ each part may be removed to use for analysis, but
then must be put back to see the whole picture
Global watching for the mobile generation: Curious
looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture ~
capturing the movement using PBOG the sociology of organisational life
Clive Burgess a security bloke searching for the truth...

2. Relationships in the Digital Age
Progression?
Source:
The transnational capitalist class and
the discourse of globalization ~
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Leslie Sklair www.theglobalsite.ac.uk

3. What is being done and who is doing it?
Progression?
I have chopped up Sklair's paper in to bite sized
chunks, the words in italic our mine, the rest are copied
from Sklair's paper .
Please look at the keywords & ideas proposed in
relation to Austerity measures used today and the
words used by Cameron and his cabinet to implement
his plan.
I have used PBOG to analyse the introduction of
Sklair's work to try and capture the movement.

4. An attempt to conceptualization
of
capitalist globalization.
Global system theory - the three building blocks
1 - Transnational corporations
2 - The transnational capitalist class
3 - The culture-ideology of consumerism
We want you to do this with these
● 1 Organisations ●
to produce that...
● 2 Behaviour ● This is how its done round here
This is how it must be done & the
3 Guidelines & Plan
●
●
definition of the situation

5. The transnational capitalist class
and its four fractions
1 - Owners and Controllers of Transnational Corporations and
their local affiliates
2 - Globalizing bureaucrats and politicians
3 - Globalizing professionals
4 - Consumerist elites (merchants and media)
1 to 4
● People Management ● Teamwork
● Roles & ● Cooperation
Responsibilities ● Competition

6. The transnational capitalist class and the
discourse of globalization
The purpose of the paper is to explain how combinations of these fractions of the
transnational capitalist class have used
1 - The discourses of national competitiveness
2 - Sustainable Development to further the interests of global capital.
3 - Globalization
1 - Competitiveness ~ Britain is open for business... France is not
2 - Business Capture of Sustainable Development through Natural
Capitalism and Corporate Social Responsibility?
3 - Globalisation in this context has nothing to do with climate
change so not to protect the environment but for consumerism and
profit

7. The transnational capitalist class and the
discourse of globalization
The purpose of the paper is to explain how combinations of these fractions of the
transnational capitalist class have used
1 - The discourses of national competitiveness
2 - Sustainable Development to further the interests of global capital.
3 - Globalization
1 - Competitiveness ~ Organisation to Behaviour
2 - Business Capture ~ Self-regulation ~ Compliance
3 – Globalisation ~ PBOG the whole process as such

8. The definition of the situation ~ Plan
Therefore, is explained not as a 'Western' but
as a Globalizing capitalist ideology
~ Liberal Democratic Ideology
Neo-liberalism that is used to mask State-
monopoly Capitalism in society today.
~ The veneer of the 'American Dream'

9. The TCC is transnational (or globalizing) in the
following respects.
(a) The economic interests of its members
are increasingly globally linked rather than
exclusively local and national in origin.
As rentiers, their property and shares are
becoming more globalized through the
unprecedented mobility of capital that new
technologies and new global political
economy have created.

10. As executives, their corporations are
globalizing in terms of four criteria:
1 - Foreign investment
2 - World best practice and benchmarking
3 - Corporate citizenship
4 - Global vision.
● 1: Plan to Guidelines ~ Financial Management
● 2: Guidelines to Organisation ~ Operations Management
● 3: Organisation to Behaviour ~ People Management
●
4: Plan to Organisation ~ Risk Management

11. The TCC is transnational (or globalizing)
in the following respects.
(b) The TCC seeks to exert economic control in the workplace
1 - Political control in domestic, international and global politics
2 - Culture-ideology control in every-day life through specific forms
of global competitive
3 - Consumerist rhetoric and practice.
● The focus of workplace control is the threat that jobs will be lost
and, in the extreme, the economy will collapse unless workers are
prepared to work longer and for less in order to meet foreign
competition. ● 1: Patterns of Behaviour
● 2: The whole of PBOG
● 3: The whole of PBOG

12. The TCC is transnational (or globalizing)
in the following respects.
(c) Members of the TCC have outward-oriented global rather
than inward-oriented local perspectives on most economic,
political and culture-ideology issues .
The growing TNC and international institutional emphasis on
free trade and the shift from import substitution to export
promotion strategies in most developing countries since the
1980s have been driven by members of the TCC working
through government agencies, political parties, elite opinion
organizations, and the media.
I've missed out section (d) as it is not relevant as yet to the
focus of my research and the point I wish to make in my
working hypothesis.

13. After Word
The State
The insertion of the nation-state into the global capitalist system
is facilitated by the transnational capitalist class through the
discourse of national competitiveness.
Sustainable Development – the political battle ground for
global control
If Capitalist take control it will become an extension of Austerity
If Socialist take control it will become inclusive and none
exploitative social justice.
● If we revert back to the gold
standard the poor will get poorer

14. Information Management CONTROL
Risk Management
Meetings
Supervision Consultation People
Management
PLAN BEHAVIOUR
Self-regulation
Business Capture
Comply . Participate
Teamwork
Conform
Roles and
Financial Responsibilities
Management
GUIDELINES ORGANISATION
Manage
Legislative Management Key Performance Indicators - Benchmarking
Corrective Action
PBOG
Sanctions Operations Management The sociology of organisational life
Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012

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● Choices
● 20th October 2012
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