Workplace atmosphere must be explained by social conflict, not merely described

Evidence

Several years later, in his Habilitation thesis of 1963, published as volume 13 of Frankfurt Contributions to Sociology', Ludwig von Friedeburg himself emphasized the necessity of assessing the atmosphere in the workplace on the basis of central, objective facts about the factory, the conditions of work there, and the structure of authority in it’. It was necessary, he held, to see the atmosphere in the workplace as being a product of the conflict between the subjective expectations of the employees, which were produced socially, and the subjectively mediated objective conditions of the factory, and not merely to register the various elements of the atmosphere in the workplace, but to explain them on the basis of the social process as a whole. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 514

Categorization

• DEFINE: Von Friedeburg’s operational definition of ‘atmosphere in the workplace’ — a product of socially produced expectations meeting objectively mediated factory conditions — is the conceptual core of the Mannesmann follow-up.
• XREF: Extends the Institute’s earlier methodological dispute with Lazarsfeld’s Bureau of Applied Social Research and its descriptive public-opinion polling. — connects to: Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2093; Everyday workplace grievances express class conflict while disguising it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514; Analyzing only subjective workplace reactions obscures the underlying management-labor conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094 (+3 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2093; Everyday workplace grievances express class conflict while disguising it — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 514; Analyzing only subjective workplace reactions obscures the underlying management-labor conflict — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2094 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Workplace atmosphere results from conflicts between workers’ social expectations and objective factory conditions. #expands (0.92) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2093