According to our text ,resistance is "distancing and defending themselves from organizational power" (185). This would include actions such as striking and boycutting. These types of actions aim at disrupting company functions while sending a message.
Stiking is an action in which employees stop working and thus inhibit business. Often times such action is taken to improve working conditions, pay, or because employees do not agree with organization policies. In some cases striking can be extremely positive and end in a compromise. At other times organizational power wins over the individuals and the company hires new employees. Although strikes are usually thought of as a method to get higher pay they can also be for issues like better economic or humanitarian policies. Women for instances might strike for improvement in sexual harassment policy within their company.
Boycotting is a form of resistance that can include the public. This resistance is enacted by refusal to buy products or services created by an organization. Again the reasons may differ. For example many people stopped buying Nike products after hearing of their outsourcing for cheap labor. Another example would be women boycotting American Apparel because of its objetifying and ambigous portrayals of women in their ads.
These actions are often noticable only when the resisting party is large or when members of the resistance have influential ties.
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Four years ago the staff at my job boycotted to get the general manager fired. We had a meeting with the owner of the company to discuss the general manager's behavior. The general manager was not present at the meeting because we knew the meeting would not be effective with him there. The majority of the operations staff was on hand which showed the support for the cause to have the general manager fired. I know that if he wasn't fired a lot of the staff would have quit.
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