Social Theory at Work

No doubt that in most countries there are illegal or legal immigrants working at their current country, but most of them are most likely to be illegal immigrants because it is not easy to neither get citizenship nor acquire long working permits. Immigrants are popular in many countries due to one particular reason, to earn money and survive.

Citizens of the country would not be very happy with the increasing amount of legal or illegal immigrants because they might threaten their job opportunity or indulge in crime and hurt the citizens. Even so, there are people and large organizations that enjoy the increasing amount of illegal immigrants because these immigrants are hard working and easily disposable, by paying them low labour cost they are able to increase their profit margin.

Furthermore, illegal immigrants are mistreated and cast in the' live in the shadows', where they have to work constantly for every penny. After reading this article 'Mama's Family', thankfully there are some immigrants that are being treat well as they should be, humans, but most often immigrants are treated badly. Carrying on, this discussion would be specifically on these few immigrants in the article 'Mama's Family', whether they are crafty competitors for jobs or pitiful, helpless victims of ruthless employers' base on the six social theories.

Frederick Winslow Taylor is well known as the "father of scientific management," his theory explains the methods of managing human nature in order to obtain better workers, therefore increasing productivity. Furthermore, this theory also emphasize on division of labour, whereby managers must know how to select, train and develop every individual employee, in addition, employee's receive their pay base on their capability. Managers also have to cooperate and be involved with the work of the employees as much as possible. Even so, the downfall of this theory is that employee's would not be able to learn more, they would only have to work. Taylor mentioned that, the allocation of work "specifying not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it"(Frederick W.Taylor,1911), this is seen as leaving individual workers no room to expand their job learning. Carrying on, relating to the article "Mama's Family," this theory can often be seen when Mama carefully picks the right person for the job task, especially when Alejandro walked in her shop, she knew that him being a Mexican, he would not have much idea of Asian dishes therefore decided that he is the best person to cook. Taylor stated "The task is always so regulated that the man who is well suited to his job will thrive while working at this rate during a long term of years and grow happier and more prosperous, instead of being overworked."(Frederick W. Taylor, 1911)Mama would prepare the base for all dishes, Alejandro