Introduction

Customer Oriented Bureaucracy (COB) is an amalgamation of the two conflicting images of service work these being new service management (NSM) which suggests a win:win:win relationship between customers, employees and employers against the more negative aspect of service work brought forward by Ritzer which suggests that service work has become McDonaldised and is fake, demeaning and highly routinised.

The original ideas were seen by Korczynski as being half right yet had their downfalls. The main flaw in the NSM was their use of the satisfaction mirror. This stated that the interests of the frontline worker were the same as the customer. This was conceptually flawed as research showed that employees want more pay and better working conditions and customers are looking for lower prices. Korczynski also looked in great depth at the McDonaldisation idea of service-work. Although retail-work does have the three dimensions of McDonaldisation these being......

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Title: The Customer Orientated Bureaucracy
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