Sociology of Organizations
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The sociological study of organizations encompasses both planned and formal organizations as well as spontaneous and informal ones. Sociologists examine organizations with attention to structure and objectives, interactions among members and among organizations, the relationship between the organization and its environment and the social significance or social meaning of the organization. The ways of defining and examining organizations vary depending on the theoretical emphasis. This book focuses on three things: . providing a wide and historically accurate portrait of the diversity of…mehr

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The sociological study of organizations encompasses both planned and formal organizations as well as spontaneous and informal ones. Sociologists examine organizations with attention to structure and objectives, interactions among members and among organizations, the relationship between the organization and its environment and the social significance or social meaning of the organization. The ways of defining and examining organizations vary depending on the theoretical emphasis. This book focuses on three things: . providing a wide and historically accurate portrait of the diversity of sociological theories and their application to organizational studies . updating selections that reflect a variety of ways that new technology affects methods of organizing and types of organizations . including readings that examine a range of both formal and informal structures, and both deliberate and impromptu interactions. Lively and provocative, this textbook is theoretically rigorous, disciplinarily informed and representative of heterogeneity within organizational studies.
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Autorenporträt
Mary Godwyn is an Assistant Professor in the History and Society Department at Babson College. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University. She has lectured at Harvard University and taught at Brandeis University and Lasell College, where she was also the Director of the Donahue Institute for Public Values. Her research is concerned with social theory as it applies to issues of economic inequality, and she has published in journals such as Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Symbolic Interaction and the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Currently a member of the executive committee of the Critical Management Studies Division of the Academy of Management, Godwyn is also the 2008 winner of the Dark Side Case Competition for her case "Hugh Connerty and Hooters: What is Successful Entrepreneurship?" She is co-authoring a book (with Donna Stoddard, D.B.A.) tentatively titled Minority Women: Better Entrepreneurs? In addition to the book, Godwyn is also co-authoring an article (with Nan Langowitz, D.B.A.): "The Impact of Gender-specific Entrepreneurship Education on Producing Women Leaders." Jody Hoffer Gittell is Associate Professor at Brandeis University′s Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Director of the MBA Program, and currently a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before joining Brandeis, Gittell received her M.A. in Political Economy from The New School for Social Research and her Ph.D. in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and served as Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School. To complement Godwyn′s expertise in sociology, Gittell brings to this project her expertise in organizational theory. Her fields include organizational theory and human resource management, and she has co-taught a Ph.D. level course in organizational theory at Brandeis University for the past four years. She has developed a theory of relational coordination, proposing that work is most effectively coordinated through relationships of shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect. Through this work she has contributed to the symbolic interaction approach to organizational theory that is highlighted in the proposed book. Gittell has authored dozens of articles and chapters, as well as three books including The Southwest Airlines Way: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve High Performance (McGraw-Hill, 2003); Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees (Cornell University Press, 2009); and High Performance Healthcare: Using the Power of Relationships to Achieve Quality, Efficiency and Resilience (McGraw-Hill, 2009). Gittell has been a frequent contributor to edited volumes, most recently the Handbook on Human Resource Management (SAGE Publications) and the Handbook on Positive Organizational Scholarship (Oxford University Press). She won the Outstanding Young Scholar of the Year Award in 2004 from the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Best Book Award for Industry Studies in 2005 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a Best Paper Award in 2008 from the Academy of Management, and the Douglas McGregor Award for Best Paper of the Year in 2008 from the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.