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1 | Introduction: Multiple levels and paradigms |
Astley, W. Graham, van de Ven, and H. Andrew. "Central Perspectives and Debates in Organization Theory." Administrative Science Quarterly 28, no. 2 (1983): 245-273. Staw, M. Barry, Lance E. Sandelands, and Jane E. Dutton. "Threat-rigidity Effects in Organizational Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis." Administrative Science Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1981): 501-524. Reger, K. Rhonda, and Timothy B. Palmer. "Managerial Categorization of Competitors: Using Old Maps to Navigate New Environments." Organization Science 7, no. 1 (1996): 22-39. Sutton, I. Robert, and Barry M. Staw. "What Theory Is Not." Administrative Science Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1995): 371-384. Barley, R. Stephen, and Gideon Kunda. "Bringing Work Back In." Organization Science 12, no. 1 (2001): 76-95. Study questions
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2 | Learning from experience |
Ellis, Shmuel, and Inbar Davidi. "After-event Reviews: Drawing Lessons from Successful and Failed Experience." Journal of Applied Psychology 90, no. 5 (2005): 857-871. Edmondson, Amy. "Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 44, no. 2 (1999): 350-383. Berman, L. Shawn, Jonathan Down, and Charles W. L. Hill. "Tacit Knowledge as a Source of Competitive Advantage in the National Basketball Association." Academy of Management Journal 45, no. 1 (2002): 13-31. Staw, M. Barry, and Sigal G. Barsade. "Affect and Managerial Performance: A Test of the Sadder-but-wiser vs. Happier-and-smarter Hypotheses." Administrative Science Quarterly 38, no. 2 (1993): 304-331. Study questions
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3 | Identity, power, and change in organizations |
Miller, L. Marc, and John Van Maanen. "Getting into Fishing: Observations on the Social Identities of New England Fishermen." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 11, no. 1 (1982): 27-54. Meyerson, E. Debra, and Maureen A. Scully. "Tempered Radicalism and the Politics of Ambivalence and Change." Organization Science 6, no. 5 (1995): 585-600. Ashford, J. Susan, Nancy P. Rothbard, Sandy Kristin Piderit, and Jane E. Dutton. "Out on a Limb: The Role of Context and Impression Management in Selling Gender-equity Issues." Administrative Science Quarterly 43, no. 1 (1998): 23-57. Barley, Stephen R. "Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments." Administrative Science Quarterly 31, no. 1 (1986): 78-108. Study questions
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4 | Behavioral decision theory and negotiation |
Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases." Science 185, no. 4157 (1974): 1124-1131. Grether, M. David, and Charles R. Plott. "Economic Theory of Choice and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon." American Economic Review 69, no. 4 (1979): 623-638. Ross, L., and A. Ward. "Naïve Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding." In Values and Knowledge (Jean Piaget Symposium Series). Edited by Edward Reed, Elliot Turiel, and Terrance Brown. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996, pp. 103-135. ISBN: 9780805815214. Bazerman, H. Max, Jared R. Curhan, and Don A. Moore. "The Death and Rebirth of the Social Psychology of Negotiation." Chapter 8 in Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes. Edited by Margaret Clark and Garth Fletcher. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002, pp. 196-228. ISBN: 9780631212294. Study questions
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5 | Attitudes and Cognition |
Petty, Richard, and John Cacioppo. Attitudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, pp. 3-29 and 255-269. ISBN: 9780813330051. Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities." American Sociological Review 33, no. 4 (1968): 499-517. Fiske, Susan, and Shelley Taylor. Social Cognition. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1991, pp. 22-56. ISBN: 9780071009102. Carroll, John S. "Out of the Lab and into the Field: Decision Making in Organizations." In Social Psychology in Organizations: Advances in Theory and Research. Edited by Keith Murnighan. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993, pp. 38-62. ISBN: 9780133740592. Zemba, Yuriko, Maia J. Young, and Michael W. Morris. "Blaming Leaders for Organizational Accidents: Proxy Logic in Collective- versus Individual-Agency Cultures." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 101, no. 1 (2006): 36-51. Study questions
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6 | Job performance |
Rotundo, Maria, and Paul R. Sackett. "The Relative Importance of Task, Citizenship, and Counterproductive Performance to Global Ratings of Job Performance: A Policy-capturing Approach." Journal of Applied Psychology 87, no. 1 (2002): 66-80. Podsakoff, M. Philip, Scott B. MacKenzie, Julie Beth Paine, and Daniel G. Bachrach. "Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Critical Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature and Suggestions for Future Research." Journal of Management 26, no. 3 (2000): 513-563. Sackett, P., and C. Devore. "Counterproductive Behaviors at Work." In Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology: Personnel Psychology. Edited by Neil Anderson, Denis Ones, Handan Sinangil and Chockalingam Viswesvaran. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2002, pp. 145-164. ISBN: 9780761964889. Dalal, Reeshad S. "A Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior." Journal of Applied Psychology 90, no. 6 (2005): 1241-1255. Study questions
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7 | Networks (and power?) |
As a single class, there are strong constraints on what I can expect to accomplish in our time together. I start with an assumption that everyone has at least heard of social networks-I know many of you have seen treatments of this topic in Ezra Zuckerman's class. For the assignment (see below), I am asking you to identify some research in an area in which you are interested in which network concepts have been used. The assignment will serve as useful background for our time together. I have three goals for this class: Goal 1: Orient students to an array of network concepts, with the aim of enlightening students' choices with respect to their own research agendas. Toward these ends, I see the class as proceeding as follows: Part I: (60 minutes)
(10 minutes break) Part II: (45 minutes)
(10 minutes break) Part III: (45 minutes)
I think of each of these parts as a kind of double-click on each preceding step. (As guidance for the required reading, I plan to wave at my own research in Part I--the Fernandez and McAdam paper. In Part II, the discussion will culminate with the Fernandez, Castilla and Moore paper. Part III will focus in on my most current research--Fernandez and Sosa and Rubineau and Fernandez papers). AssignmentIn preparation for the class, choose an area of research that you have been thinking about. How have network concepts and ideas been used in this area? Imagine you are committed to doing research in this area. Which network approaches do you think will be fruitful in your view? Less than fruitful? Why? |
8 | Groups and teams |
Levine, John, and Richard Moreland. "Small Groups." Chapter 26 in The Handbook of Social Psychology. Vol. 2. Edited by Daniel Gilbert, Susan Fiske, and Gardner Lindzey. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 415-469. ISBN: 9780195213768. Phillips, W. Katherine, and Denise Lewin Loyd. "When Surface and Deep-level Diversity Collide: The Effects on Dissenting Group Members." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 99, no. 2 (2006): 143-160. Barker, James R. "Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-managing Teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 38, no. 3 (1993): 408-437. Hinds, J. Pamela, and Mark Mortensen. "Understanding Conflict in Geographically Distributed Teams: The Moderating Effects of Shared Identity, Shared Context, and Spontaneous Communication." Organization Science 16, no. 3 (2005): 290-307. Study questions
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9 | External perspective on teams |
Bresman, Henrik. "Lessons Learned and Lessons Lost: A Multi-method Field Study of Vicarious Team Learning Behaviour and Performance." INSEAD Working Paper, 2006. Ancona, G. Deborah, and David F. Caldwell. "Bridging the Boundary: External Activity and Performance in Organizational Teams." Administrative Science Quarterly 37, no. 4 (1992): 634-661. Ancona, Deborah, and Mary J. Waller. "The Dance of Entrainment: Temporally Navigating across Multiple Pacers." In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 17, Workplace Temporalities. Edited by Beth Rubin. Forthcoming, 2007. Study questions
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10 | Culture |
Van Maanen, John. "Rediscovering Japan: Some Thoughts on Change and Continuity in Traditional Japanese Careers." Career Development International 11, no. 4 (2006): 280-292. Van Maanen, John, and Edgar G. Schein. "Identity Work: Notes on the Personal Identity of Police Officers." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, 1988. Van Maanen, John. "The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland." Chapter 4 in Reframing Organizational Culture. Edited by Peter Frost, Larry Moore, Meryl Louis, Craig Lundberg, and Joanne Martin. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 58-76. ISBN: 9780803936515. |
11 | Organizing and designing organizations |
Galbraith, Jay R. Designing Complex Organizations. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1973, pp. 8-21. ISBN: 9780201025590. ———. Designing Organizations: An Executive Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001, chapters 2 and 3. ISBN: 9780787957452. Scott, W. Richard. Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002, chapters 9 and 10. ISBN: 9780130165596. Dunbar, L. M. Roger, and William H. Starbuck. "Learning to Design Organizations and Learning from Designing Them." Organization Science 17, no. 2 (2006): 171-178. Yoo, Youngjin, Richard J. Boland, Jr., and Kalle Lyytinen. "From Organization Design to Organization Designing." Organization Science 17, no. 2 (2006): 215-229. Malone, Thomas W. The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004, pp. 3-13. ISBN: 9781591391258. Study questionsFor this session, you may choose to answer one (or both) of the following questions. Your total text for the two questions should be about 2 pages.
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12 | Technology and organizations |
Barley, Stephen R. "Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments." Administrative Science Quarterly 31, no. 1 (1986): 78-108. Constant, David, Lee Sproull, and Sara Kiesler. "The Kindness of Strangers: The Usefulness of Electronic Weak Ties for Technical Advice." Organization Science 7, no. 2 (1996): 119-135. Hinds, J. Pamela, and Diane E. Bailey. "Out of Sight, Out of Sync: Understanding Conflict in Distributed Teams." Organization Science 14, no. 6 (2003): 615-632. Orlikowski, Wanda J. "Improvising Organizational Transformation over Time: A Situated Change Perspective." Information Systems Research 7, no. 1 (1996): 63-92. Yates, Joanne. "How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-side Turn." Enterprise and Society 7, no. 3 (2006): 422-455. Study questions
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13 | Organizational and enterprise change |
Kotter, John P. "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 2 (1995): pp. 59-67. Collins, Jim. "Level 5 Leadership." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 1 (2001): 66-76. Dyer, H. Jeffrey, and Nile W. Hatch. "Using Supplier Networks to Learn Faster." MIT Sloan Management Review 45, no. 3 (2004): 57-63. Spear, Steven, and H. Kent Bowen. "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 5 (1999): 96-106. Beer, M. "Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O." In Handbook of Organization Development. Edited by Thomas Cummings. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2007. ISBN: 9780761928126. OptionalRobertson, J. Peter, Darryl R. Roberts, and Jerry I. Porras. "Dynamics of Planned Organizational Change: Assessing Empirical Support for a Theoretical Model." Academy of Management Journal 36, no. 3 (1993): 619-634. Kleiner, Art. "Climbing to Greatness with Jim Collins." Strategy+Business (Fourth Quarter, 2001): 1-11. Liker, K. Jeffrey, and James M. Morgan. "The Toyota Way in Services: The Case of Lean Product Development." Academy of Management Perspectives 20, no. 2 (2006): 5-20. MacDuffie, John Paul, and Susan Helper. "Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production through the Supply Chain." California Management Review 39, no. 4 (1997): 118-151. Study questions
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