The process in which employees at all levels willingly adopt and enforce the legitimate power of the organization, society, or system of capitalism.

Occurs when employees police themselves, developing the means for their own control.

A form of organizing that made a connection between the wages paid to employees and their ability to be active consumers.

Term used to describe the hidden power of the ruling elite, whose views are taken up and subscribed to by subordinate groups.

A system of ideas that form the basis of a political and economic theory.

The ways in which organizational members distance and defend themselves from organizational power.

The process whereby socially constructed meanings come to be perceived and experienced as real, objective, and fixed, such that members “forget” their participation in the construction of those meanings.

Something that a person or group possesses and can exercise over others through actions.

A site of struggle over competing meanings and varying ideas of what is true or real.

The verbal expression of disagreement or contradictory opinions from that of management or the organization.