FALL 2001 SYLLABUS |
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| September 7 | Professor Karl Weick,
Organizational
Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business
School Presentation: "Mismanaging the Unexpected: The High Profile Outbreak of West Nile Virus" Introducer: Tim Vogus, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management |
| September 14 |
"A Different Kind
of ICOS" What does Organizational Studies have to offer to help us make sense and cope with the horrible set of events in New York and Washington, D.C., and the unknown future. Here is what we invite you to do. Please come with an overhead to share with people two things: 1) what question/questions are raised about organizations from this tragedy? 2) from where you sit, what ideas from Organizational Studies do you see as helpful in understanding or dealing with these events? Questions Presented |
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| September 21 | Professor Nelson
Repenning, Management, System Dynamics Group,
Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presentation: "Structuring Low Capability" Abstract Background Reading: "Understanding Fire Fighting in New Product Development" by Nelson P. Repenning and "Self-Confirming Attribution Errors in the Dynamics of Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D. Sterman Introducer: Ryan Quinn, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management |
| September 28 | Professor Hilary Bradbury,
Organizational
Behavior, Weatherhead School of Management, Case
Western University Presentation: "Sustainability and Sustaining Relational Change" Background Reading: "Dynamics of Dialogic Capital in Inter-Organizational Collaboration" Introducer: Jason Kanov, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Psychology |
| October 5 | Professor Gretchen Spreitzer,
Organizational
Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Presentation: "Empowerment and Trust in the Context of Downsizing" Background Reading: "To Stay or to Go: Voluntary Survivor Turnover Following an Organizational Downsizing," by Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Aneil K. Mishra Introducer: Maya Efrat Fischhoff, Ph.D. Student, School of Natural Resources and Environment |
| October 12 | Professor Avner Greif,
Humanities
and Sciences, Economics Department, Stanford
University Presentation: "Self-reinforcing Institutions and Endogenous Institutional Change" Background Reading: "How Do Self-Enforcing Institutions Endogenously Change?: Institutional Reinforcement and Quasi-Parameters" by Avner Greif Introducer: Aaron Field, Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology |
| October 19 | Professor Amiram
Vinokur, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center, University of Michigan Presentation: "From Field Experiments to Community Interventions for Unemployed Job Seekers" Background Reading: "Two Years after a Job Loss: Long-Term Impact of the JOBS Program on Reemployment and Mental Health," by Amiram D. Vinokur, Yaacov Schul, Jukka Vuori, and Richard Price, in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 2000, Vol. 5, No. 1, 32-47 and "From Job Loss to Reemployment: Field Experiments in Prevention-Focused Coping," by Robert D. Caplan, Amiram D. Vinokur, and Richard Price, from G.W. Albee & T.P. Gullotta (Eds.) Primary Prevention Works. Sage Publications, 1997 Introducer: Jacoba Lilius, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Psychology |
| October 26 | Workshop: Doing
Qualitative Research Professor Michael Pratt, Business Administration, College of Commerce & Business Administration, University of Illinois Time/Location: 9:00-10:30 a.m., UM Business School, Room P2011 NOTE: Limited enrollment. Requires pre-registration with Paula Kopka |
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Professor Michael Pratt, Business Administration, College of
Commerce & Business Administration, University of Illinois Presentation: "Making Sense of Work: The Role of Identity Menus During Medical Residencies" Background Reading: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: Managing Identification Among Amway Distributors," by Michael Pratt, Administrative Science Quarterly; "Making Sense of Work: The Role of Identity Menus in Socialization," by Mike Pratt, R.W. Rock, & J.B. Kaufmann Introducer: Katherine Lawrence, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management |
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| November 2 | Professor Julia
Wondolleck, School of Natural Resources and Environment,
University of Michigan Presentation: "What Enables People to Overcome Differences and Begin Working Together?: Insights from Collaborative Efforts in Natural Resource Management" Background Reading: "Building Bridges to a Sustainable Future," Chapter 1 in Making Collaboration Work: Lessons from Innovation in Natural Resource Management, by Julia Wondolleck and Steven Yaffee, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000 Introducer: Elizabeth McCance, Ph.D. Student, School of Natural Resources and Environment NOTE: Anyone who would like to know more about our research, publications, and other activities related to multi-party collaboration can visit our website: www.snre.umich.edu/ecomgt/collaboration.htm |
| November 9 | Professor Richard
Price,
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Presentation: "JOBS in Finland, China, and California: Three Stories of Culture and Politics in Innovation" Background Reading: "Job-Loss and Work Transitions in a Time of Global Economic Change," by Richard H. Price, Daniel S. Friedland, Jin Nam Choi, and Robert D. Caplan in Addressing Community Problems, 1998 Introducer: Klaus Weber, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management |
| November 16 | Professor Loraleigh Keashly,
College
of Urban, Labor, and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University Presentation: "By Any Other Name: American Perspectives on Workplace Bullying" Background Reading: "By Any Other Name: American Perspectives on Workplace Bullying" Introducer: Kathi Miner-Rubino, Ph.D. Student, Psychology Professor Christine Pearson, Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario Presentation: "Assessing the Characteristics and Consequences of Workplace Incivility" Background Reading: "When Workers Flout Convention: A Study of Workplace Incivility," by Christine M. Pearson, Lynne M. Andersson, and Judith W. Wegner Introducer: Sandy Lim, Ph.D. Student, Organizational Psychology |
| November 30 |
So How Do I Review
Articles: Panel on the Craft of Article Reviewing Professor Jerry Davis, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School Professor Martha Feldman, Political Science, School of Public Policy, University of Michigan Professor Stephen Raudenbush, School of Education, University of Michigan Professor James Walsh, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan Business School Introducer: Jane Dutton, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, UM Business School |
| December 7 |
Conference Finale:
"Positive Organizational Scholarship" Professor Peter Frost, University of British Columbia Professor James Ludema, Benedictine University Professor Amy Wrzesneiwski, New York University Location: School of Social Work, Educational Conference Center, Room 1840 Introducers: Jason Kanov, Jacoba Lilius, and Seung-Yoon Rhee |