Week 3 Blog #2 - Domination

The class lecture talks about domination. Domination is described as, “organizations us[ing] and exploit[ing] employees, damaging employees' health and intruding on their personal lives.” Wow does this remind me of my job. I really do love my work but this type of management describes the owner of my spa to a “T”. I work fulltime but I am also a fulltime student. Unfortunately, according to my boss, we employees must live, eat, breathe, smell, taste, hear and see nothing but our spa. We are required to do work outside of work, on our own time, without pay. It’s like because he doesn’t have a life outside of the spa neither should we. He is actually resentful of the fact that I am in school, even though I still work fulltime, because I can’t devoted every second to my job. He has even told me so and made me feel bad about it. This is definitely NOT a way to run a successful business and it sure as hell doesn’t make people want to stay around and work for him. Fortunately, he isn’t in the spa too often therefore, we don’t have to deal with him much. Domination should be held as an example of one of the worst management styles ever.