Assignment:
1. Explain the role of FedEx and the social functions it supports or promotes.
2. Define FedEx in terms of primary and secondary classifications.
3. If FedEx is deemed a reference group consider how this group affects or has affected your life.
4. Consider Weber's five characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy and suggest which of the characteristics of an ideal bureaucracy are directly applicable to FedEx.
5. Examine the positive and negative ramifications of operating with a bureaucracy structure.