The Definitive, Critical, and Analytical Investigation Into the Modern Worker

In conclusion, after extensive research the writer is of the persuasion that the excellent worker in a post-Fordist organisation is indeed an enterprising self – this is not to discount the theses of Flecker and Hofbauer, and Rose who as noted above, correctly convey organisations as dictators of the worker’s duties, and professional success. Indeed, the writer is of the opinion that whilst the goals of the worker and the organisation are in tandem, the values which each take from success at work are drastically contrasting. As noted, the worker is concerned primarily to achieve self-actualisation at work, which is indeed of the benefit to the organisation through higher productivity of better service to the customer. However beneficial this is to the organisation, the overall goals are not that of the worker, as with any firm the aim is profit-maximisation and market dominance. Despite seeing an amalgamation of interests on the surface, it appears conclusive that the underlying aspects of work are of significantly diverse between worker and organisation. Similarly, we can refute the idea that worker ideology has transformed in line with the change from Fordism to post-Fordism, as Du Gay suggest above, the idea of economic agents invites us to consider that workers have always sought to better themselves at work- (in this aspect quasi-economically) be it wages, working hours or working conditions Although, in the modern organisation, unlike the Fordist organisation, we could contest that the elements of self-actualisation and enterprising-self are exclusively modern phenomena. As Leinder noted above, post-Fordist people are primarily consumers and not producers, inciting a world of marketing, branding and PR- a new method in which workers are enticed to work, i.e. to allow them the lifestyle they want, through purchasing products they desire (or the organisations have them believe they desire). As we know, this is nothing new since the Fordist era, where producers bought the cars they produced. In these cases, the excellent, modern worker is, an enterprising self, as have been all the workers which preceded them in Fordist era organisation methods, methods which we can contest with some degree of confidence, are still in use particularly in the service industry.