The structuring of work in organizations

Differences in management behavior across organizations are attributed to differences in priorities and objectives or differences in the style and preferences of the individuals involved. This volume challenges this image by attending to the extra-organizational and extra-individual forces that shap...

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Other Authors Cohen, Lisa E., Burton, M. Diane, Lounsbury, Michael
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesResearch in the sociology of organizations ; v. 47.
Subjects
Corporate culture.
Personnel management.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: bringing jobs back in: towards a new multi-level approach to the study of work and organizations / M. Diane Burton, Lisa Cohen, Michael Lounsbury
  • Jobs as Gordian knots a new perspective linking individuals, tasks, organizations and institutions / Lisa Cohen
  • Idiosyncratic jobs, organizational transformation, and career mobility / Anne Miner, Olubukunola (Bukky) Akinsanmi
  • The ideology of silence at the Harvard Business School: structuring faculty's teaching tasks for moral relativism / Michel Anteby
  • What do technicians mean when they talk about professionalism? an ethnography of speaking / Stephen Barley, Beth Bechky, Bonalyn Nelsen
  • Compliance police or business partner? institutional complexity and occupational tensions in human resource management / Kurt Sandholtz, Tyler Burrows
  • Structure at work: organizational forms and the division of labor in U.S. wineries / Heather Haveman, Anand Swaminathan, Eric Johnson
  • It's not you, it's your job: network evolution within firms / Jennifer Kurkoski
  • Help me do it on my own: how entrepreneurs manage autonomy and constraint within incubator organizations / Victor Seidel, Kelley Packalen, Siobhan O'Mahony
  • Legal avoidance and the restructuring of work / Charlotte Alexander
  • Externalization of work by corporate law firms: implications for careers and the profession / Christine Riordan, Paul Osterman
  • Work as commons: internal labor markets, blended workforces and management / Arnaldo Camuffo, Federica De Stefano
  • From adapting practices to inhabiting ideas: how managers restructure work across organizations / Ruthanne Huising.

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