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This course teaches on theory, research, and practice from the field of organisational and social psychology. It draws on different disciplines (e.g. sociology, anthropology, social theory etc) and aims to encourage students to reflect on the social and psychological nature of organizations and work and their importance for individuals, societies and communities. Topics covered include leadership, decision making, communication, organizational change, and other group processes.
This book summarizes and reviews research and theory in all the major areas of the field of organizational psychology from the general perspective provided by the social identity approach. Social identity here refers to people’s sense of themselves as group members who share goals, values and interests with others. It challenges the dominant view of organizational psychology by examining and explaining the ability of people to define themselves and act not only as “I” but also as “we”. The book presents extensive reviews and critiques of major topics in organizational psychology, including leadership, motivation, communication, decision making, negotiation, power, productivity and collective action.
This book covers new ground and essential areas in the field of critical management studies. Part One provides an introduction on rethinking critical management studies in a changing world. Part Two adopts a variety of perspectives with a view to offering reflections on different aspects of critical management studies as an academic enterprise. Part Three examines a range of concerns relating to issues of difference, otherness, and marginality. Part Four consists of a series of critical considerations on different aspects of production and dissemination of knowledge. Part Five looks at a host of complexities surrounding history and discourse. Part Six is concerned with investigating a variety of complex global issues.
This book provides an overview of critical management studies. Part One presents leading theoretical approaches- critical theory, critical realism, post-structuralism, and labor process theory. Part Two considers key topics and issues that have been subjected to critical management study such as organizations, identity, globalization, gender and diversity. Part Three addresses the development of critical studies within specialist disciplines, such as marketing and accounting. Part Four concludes with a range of commentaries on aspects of critical management study that have implications for its future prospects, including the problems and prospects of critical management study.
This book provides detailed coverage of the academic and professional aspects of six main fields of applied psychology- clinical psychology, health psychology, forensic psychology, educational psychology, occupational psychology, and sports and exercise psychology. Each applied section consists of five chapters, with the first chapter providing an introduction to that applied area and the last chapter focusing on professional and training issues. The remainders cover core knowledge of the applied area and discuss the research base that has contributed to the development of that applied field. The book also features focus points, activities, research methods, case histories, theory to applications, questions, texts for further reading and relevant journal, glossary, and website.
This book starts from reviewing the history of social psychology and outlining a contemporary orientation for the social psychology of everyday life. The discussion is then extended to how knowledge is constructed in everyday settings, what indigenous psychologies can contribute to developing understandings of people in social settings, how the cultivation of place-based identities can increase social participation, how human displacement affects individuals and the receiving communities, how the social influences on health and illness disrupts lifestyle choices, how the marginalized groups and everyday experience is overwhelmed with social injustice, how positive-focused traditions in social psychology can be connected with critical humanism, how people have interacted with media.
This book introduces some new ideas current in critical social psychology. Chapters One and Two examine and critique existing practices within social psychology. Chapters Three and Four lays the philosophical groundwork for an alternative way of thinking about social life and sketches an alternative, language-based orientation to research within social psychology, Chapters Five and Six includes material that offers a contrast between the way selected topics have traditionally been studied and how they have been examined by critical social psychologists. The book concludes with an Epilogue, restating the shame of social psychology, the relationship between critical and traditional social psychology, and aspects of criticality.
This book deals mainly with substantive issues concerning the world of work. Part One provides background material for the study of work, including overview of work in past societies and ways to study work in contemporary society. Part Two deals with our work roles and how these influence our daily lives. Part Three deals with technology and organization of work. Part Four deals with the occupational roles that we hold and with the unique sets of skills that are needed to perform these roles. Part Five focuses on societal-level consequences of the changing nature of work.
This book introduces the lived experiences of labour in a wide range of occupations and work settings. The chapters of this book cover professional employees such as engineers and lawyers, service workers such as bar hostesses, domestic maids and hotel workers, and industrial workers in a variety of factories. The mosaic of human faces, organizational dynamics and workers' voices presented in the book reflect the complexity of changes and challenges taking place in the Chinese workplace today. This book collects 12 essays. Part One focuses on remaking class and community. Part Two deals with gendering service work. Part Three deals with new professions and knowledge workers.
This book elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. Part One gives an introduction to organized impermanence. The following parts focuses on attending, interpretation, action, learning and change respectively. The seeming permanence of organizations conceals an endless cycle of interruptions, recoveries, and reorganizing. This fundamental cycle is explored in a series of essays that focus on ways in which people organize their attention, interpretations, actions, and learning in order to cope with impermanence. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves.
This book focuses on the proliferation of labors, both paid and unpaid, that sustains the day-to-day work that individuals and societies require to survive and flourish. It examines the social construction of commodified intimacies, or, more precisely, the intersections of money and intimacy in everyday life, by looking at the ways that intimacy as a material, affective, psychological, and embodied state characterizes such labors. Part One focuses on remaking the intimate from the perspectives of technology and globalization. Part Two discusses creating intimate boundaries from the perspectives of culture and social relations. Part Three deals with organizing intimate labor from the perspectives of politics and mobilization.
This book explores solutions to business problems from a psychological perspective. The recurring theme in this book is that business is about people and that a good understanding of psychology can help us to build more fulfilling and successful lives at work. The introductory chapter looks at how work psychology has developed at the interface between the traditional fields of psychology and management. Part One focuses on the day-to-day business of managing relationships and understanding people in the modern workplace. Part Two considers how to use psychological knowledge to survive the challenges of the modern workplace and improve our work lives. Part Three introduces exciting new developments in work psychology.
This book is aimed at understanding how particular assumptions about the body have shaped the area of organization studies, as part of a wider tradition of western knowledge and rationality, and as part of the development of social theory. It argues that the body is an absent presence in organizational theory, that the broader intellectual and historical context of which organization studies is a part, is one in which a culture of dissection predominates, and that organization theory is characterized by being part of this culture of dissection and by the objectified disembodiment of the individual.
This book is concerned with the connotation of leadership. It examines the historical work around leadership as well as the monumental greats of well-known politicians. It also examines the recent research work and issues of context, contingency, transaction, and the popular transformational leadership. Then the book proceeds to give an overview of social identity and self‐categorization, comprehensively leading the way for the new theory and stance on leadership, identity (social and group), power, influence, and followership. The book finally concludes with the importance of persuading the reader of the credibility and coherence of an identity of leadership approach.
This book offers a new critical approach to contemporary organizational analysis. It explores the modern heritage of philosophy and sociology from which classical theories of organization and bureaucracy have arisen, and discusses critical counter-movements to the consequences of a scientific organization sociology and to an expanding managerial orientation in organizational analysis. It also discusses the turn of postmodernism after the apparent failure of modern criticism, and the rise of new theoretical approaches to organizational analysis, explores a return to practice, analyses these developments, and reflects on possibilities for organizational and social revitalization.
This book provides an overview of the development of organization theory from the perspective of general theoretical traditions. The theory traditions covered are classical organization theory, cultural modern theory, rational modern theory, interpretative theory, critical theory, and postmodern theory. This book adopts sociological paradigms as an epistemological framework. The sociological paradigms in historical context and its impact is located on the field of Organization Theory. This book discusses how the work influenced the emergence and shape of Critical Management Studies as a distinct disciplinary field while somehow retaining its skeptical stance.
This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows that globalisation along the flip-flop trail is a tangle of unstable, shifting, ad hoc and contingent connections. This book displays both the instabilities of the 'chains' and the complexities, personal topographies and skills with which people navigate these global uncertainties. This book provides new ways of thinking about globalisation from the vantage point of the shifting landscape crossed by a seemingly ordinary and everyday commodity.
This book draws on interviews with many people to call into question the terms of our new economy. The sources come from Rico, a business consultant, Rose, who ran the Tout Bar in New York, some workers in an automated bakery in Boston, and some redundant IBM programmers. The book challenges the reader to decide whether the flexibility of modern capitalism is merely a fresh form of oppression, by arguing that the new flexible capitalism has such effects on steady jobs and career employment that people lose all sense of social anchorage and all feeling of being needed by others.
This book provides a critical overview of the workings of leadership. It presents leader-centered perspectives on leadership, surveys work done by the followers, brings culture into analysis, describes some of the growing body of work that takes an explicitly critical stance against mainstream leadership research, look at a series of related efforts to rehabilitate and invigorate leadership in response to widespread concerns brought into dramatic relief by a number of corporate scandals and financial crises that erupted in the first part of the century, and look at what is being done to develop more and better leaders throughout the world.
This book presents a model for career reinvention that flies in the face of everything we've learned from "career experts"--and is tailor-made for changing careers in today's uncertain world. It argues that career transition is not a linear path toward some predetermined identity, but a crooked journey along which we try on a host of "possible selves" we might become. The book identifies the three critical strategies--experiment with new professional activities and identities, interact in new networks of people, and make sense of what is happening to us in light of emerging possibilities--that all successful career changers use.
This book examines the way emotion penetrates work life, including leadership, decision-making, organizational change and virtual organizations, by drawing on a range of fields, including psychology, sociology and organizational theory. Part One focuses on some key areas where emotion is directly used, or heavily implicated, in everyday workplace operations or management. Part Two examines the essence of such injuries and the implications of seeing organizations from the standpoint of darker side of work. It addresses the darker side of emotion in the context of bullying, violence, sexual harassment and downsizing. The book concludes with some reflections on the main themes and their implications.
This book deals with the power of introverts under the Extrovert Ideal. Part One discusses how extroversion became the cultural ideal, the historical creation of the culture of personality, and the positive characteristics that are attributed to introverts. Part Two discusses the connection between temperament and personality, and studies that have examined the influences of innate, inborn temperament on personality type. Part Three examines the idea that the Extrovert Ideal is an American standard that is not typical in other cultures. Part Four concludes with the discussion on how to communicate with people of the opposite type and how to foster traits rather than force introverted children to be extraverted.
The term McDonaldization is employed to refer to an insidious, tentacular, and ultimately irrational social process driven by the pursuit of maximum efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. The book begins with an introduction to the conception of McDonaldization and a discussion of its past, present, and future. Then the book proceeds to provide evidence of the four basic dimensions of McDonaldization- efficiency, calculability, predictability, and control. The remainder of the book explores the irrationalities of McDonaldization, how individuals and groups are bothered by McDonaldization, and the continued expansion of McDonaldization primarily under the heading of globalization.
This book is focused primarily on methods that are used in areas of business and management, but also concerned with subject areas including organizational behavior, marketing, strategy, organization studies, and human resources management. Part One deals with basic ideas about the nature of business and management research and with the considerations in planning and starting a student research project. Part Two is concerned with quantitative research. Part Three is concerned with qualitative research. Part Four goes beyond the quantitative/qualitative research contrast, such as the combination of quantitative and qualitative research and e-research.
This book introduces the range of methods available for undertaking qualitative data collection and analysis in the areas of organization studies, management research, and organizational psychology. It includes 30 chapters, each focusing on a specific technique, covering traditional research methods, analysis techniques, and interventions as well as the latest developments in the field. Each chapter reviews how the method has been used in organizational research, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using the method, and presents a case study example of the method in use. A list of further readings is supplied as well.
This book is aimed at readers interested in organizational studies. Part One describes the steps of organizational ethnography, engages ethnography as a genre of writing, and concerns with the authorial power. Part Two explores problems and challenges around several contradictory pairs that characterize various aspects of this research process: immersion and distance, zooming in and zooming out, participating and observing, and closeness and closure. Part Three covers the engagement with the truth-stretching lies built into ethnographic research, the role of friendship in research relationships, the challenges of moving beyond research toward engaged action, and their own potential complicity in social justice.
This handbook deals with research philosophies, approaches, tools and techniques indigenous to industrial and organizational psychology. Part One provides the reader with a broad understanding of diverse research approaches/paradigms and key overarching research concepts such as validity and reliability. Part Two discusses traditional, new, and unconventional data-gathering concepts and techniques such as organizational survey research and computational modelling. Part Three presents topics related to handling and analysis of data such as coping with missing data and longitudinal modelling. Part Four concludes with how to successfully write up research results and the key challenges facing organizational researcher as a community.
This book collects 10 essays to address how to study work and organizations. Themes covered include rules, exchange, practices, identities, formalisms, and knowledge. It starts with framing connections between organization studies and ethnomethodology/conversation analysis. Then it explores how key features of organizational settings are worked into being through episodes of social interaction, as well as the talk of organizational members and the embodied resources that members bring to bear in their work by focusing on aspects of persuasion and sales. It also explores the production of documents in organizational conduct.
