The Structuring of Work in Organizations
Published on 23. August 2016
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-78635-436-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 shape and constrain how work is structured in organizations.
The authors focus their attention on work within and between organizations and emphasize the ways in which the jobs are defined, the power and autonomy they engender, the opportunities that are afforded, and the constraints that are imposed, are continuously contested not only at the individual level, but also at a more aggregate and collective level.
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars convened with generous support of the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. It presents new theoretical and empirical papers that examine aspects of the changing nature of jobs and work in organizations from multiple perspectives and methodologies.
The authors focus their attention on work within and between organizations and emphasize the ways in which the jobs are defined, the power and autonomy they engender, the opportunities that are afforded, and the constraints that are imposed, are continuously contested not only at the individual level, but also at a more aggregate and collective level.
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars convened with generous support of the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. It presents new theoretical and empirical papers that examine aspects of the changing nature of jobs and work in organizations from multiple perspectives and methodologies.
Reviews / Votes
Business, management, and other specialists from the US, Europe, and Canada offer 12 essays that consider the structure and structuring of work within and between organizations, focusing on jobs and how they are shaped by and impact organizations, occupations, and institutions. They discuss jobs as the building blocks of organizational and societal structures, with examples like idiosyncratic jobs and college teaching; professional and occupational boundaries for technicians and human resource departments; constraints related to work in organizations, including organizational identity, network position, and autonomy; and how structures are perpetuated and changed and stress broader institutional and political forces. -- Annotation * (protoview.com) *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
773 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78635-436-5 (9781786354365)
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Lisa Cohen | M. Diane Burton | Michael Lounsbury
The Structuring of Work in Organizations
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08/2016
Emerald Publishing Limited
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Persons
Edited by Lisa E. Cohen, McGill University, Canada
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University, USA
Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, Canada
M. Diane Burton, Cornell University, USA
Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, Canada
Content
Introduction: Bringing Jobs Back In: Toward a New Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Work and Organizations - M. Diane Burton, Lisa E. Cohen and Michael Lounsbury
PART I: TASKS AND JOBS AS BUILDING BLOCKS
Jobs as Gordian Knots a New Perspective Linking Individuals, Tasks, Organizations, and Institutions - Lisa E. Cohen
Idiosyncratic Jobs, Organizational Transformation, and Career Mobility - Anne S. Miner and Olubukunola (Bukky) Akinsanmi
The Ideology of Silence at the Harvard Business School: Structuring Faculty's Teaching Tasks for Moral Relativism - Michel Anteby
PART II: OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES
What Do Technicians Mean When They Talk About Professionalism? An Ethnography of Speaking - Stephen R. Barley, Beth A. Bechky and Bonalyn J. Nelsen
Compliance Police or Business Partner? Institutional Complexity and Occupational Tensions in Human Resource Management - Kurt W. Sandholtz and Tyler N. Burrows
PART III: STRUCTURE AS CONSTRAINT
Structure at Work: Organizational Forms and the Division of Labor in U.S. Wineries - Heather A. Haveman, Anand Swaminathan and Eric B. 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 P. Seidel, Kelley A. Packalen and Siobhan O'Mahony
PART IV: CHANGING AND PERPETUATING STRUCTURES
Legal Avoidance and the Restructuring of Work - Charlotte S. Alexander
Externalization of Work by Corporate Law Firms: Implications for Careers and the Profession - Christine Riordan and Paul Osterman
Work as Commons: Internal Labor Markets, Blended Workforces and Management - Arnaldo Camuffo and Federica De Stefano
From Adapting Practices to Inhabiting Ideas: How Managers Restructure Work Across Organizations - Ruthanne Huising
PART I: TASKS AND JOBS AS BUILDING BLOCKS
Jobs as Gordian Knots a New Perspective Linking Individuals, Tasks, Organizations, and Institutions - Lisa E. Cohen
Idiosyncratic Jobs, Organizational Transformation, and Career Mobility - Anne S. Miner and Olubukunola (Bukky) Akinsanmi
The Ideology of Silence at the Harvard Business School: Structuring Faculty's Teaching Tasks for Moral Relativism - Michel Anteby
PART II: OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL BOUNDARIES
What Do Technicians Mean When They Talk About Professionalism? An Ethnography of Speaking - Stephen R. Barley, Beth A. Bechky and Bonalyn J. Nelsen
Compliance Police or Business Partner? Institutional Complexity and Occupational Tensions in Human Resource Management - Kurt W. Sandholtz and Tyler N. Burrows
PART III: STRUCTURE AS CONSTRAINT
Structure at Work: Organizational Forms and the Division of Labor in U.S. Wineries - Heather A. Haveman, Anand Swaminathan and Eric B. 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 P. Seidel, Kelley A. Packalen and Siobhan O'Mahony
PART IV: CHANGING AND PERPETUATING STRUCTURES
Legal Avoidance and the Restructuring of Work - Charlotte S. Alexander
Externalization of Work by Corporate Law Firms: Implications for Careers and the Profession - Christine Riordan and Paul Osterman
Work as Commons: Internal Labor Markets, Blended Workforces and Management - Arnaldo Camuffo and Federica De Stefano
From Adapting Practices to Inhabiting Ideas: How Managers Restructure Work Across Organizations - Ruthanne Huising