Fall 2003 SYLLABUS
"Asking Important Questions about Organizations," two-part series
September 5 Professor Royston Greenwood, Strategic Management & Organization, School of Business, University of Alberta
Presentation:  "Organizations, Ownership and Privilege: Does Anybody Care?"
Provocateurs: Professor Jerry Davis and Professor Mayer Zald
Background Reading: "Disconnects and Consequences in Organization Theory?" by C.R. Hinings and Royston Greenwood
Introducer: Melissa Wooten, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
September 12
 Professor James Walsh, Organizational Behavior, University of Michigan Business School
Presentation: "Misery Loves Companies: Whither Social Initiatives by Business" 
Background Reading: "Social Issues and Management: Our Lost Cause Found," by James Walsh, Klaus Weber, and Joshua Margolis
Introducer: Anne Fleischer, Corporate Strategy & International Business, Business School
September 19
 Session III:  "The Role of Organizational Environment in Health and Performance" conference (100 slots for whole conference opened for ICOS)
Jointly sponsored by the Chronic Pain & Fatigue Research Program and the Business School's Center for Positive Organizational Scholarship

Program

Time: 1:30-2:15 p.m.
Presentation: "From Pathology to Strength: Common Factors Influencing Individuals and Organizations"
Professor David A. Williams, University of Michigan
Time: 2:15-3:00 p.m.
Presentation: "How Do Organizations Foster Extraordinary Performance in People?"
Professor Kim Cameron, University of Michigan
Time: 3:00-3:30 p.m.
Presentation: "Work Organizations that Enable Human Thriving"
Professor Gretchen Spreitzer, Professor Kathie Sutcliffe, Professor Jane Dutton, University of Michigan
September 26
 Professor Jennifer Crocker, Psychology Department, University of Michigan
Presentation:  "The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem"
Bridge Builders: Professor Susan Ashford and Professor Janet Weiss
Background Reading:  "The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem," by Jennifer Crocker and Lora E. Park
Introducer:  Amara Brook, Social Psychology, University of Michigan
October 3
 Professor Terry Dworkin, Jack R. Wentworth Professor of Business Law, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Presentation: "Controlling Organizations through Whistleblowing: Global Trends and the Impact of Gender"
Background Reading: "The Mouth of Truth" (this is a draft, please do not cite), by Terry Dworkin, Indiana University and Elletta Callahan, Syracuse University
Introducer: Kathi Miner-Rubino, Psychology Department
October 10

Workshop:  "Strategies for Renewal: Getting Beyond Surviving and Working Towards Thriving!"
"Traces of the break-out session for the Thriving Workshop"
Co-Organizers: Professor Jane Dutton and Erica Ryu, Ph.D. Student in Sociology
Presenters:  Professor Jane Dutton, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School; Professor Barbara Fredrickson, Department of Psychology; Professor Karl Weick, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
Background Reading:  Table of Contents-Renewing Research Practice: Lessons from Scholar's Journeys; "One Scholar's Garden: A narrative of renewal," by Jane Dutton; "How Projects Lose Meaning: The Dynamics of Renewal," by Karl Weick
Introducer:  Jane Dutton, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
October 17
 Professor Mary Jo Hatch, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia
Presentation:  "Should Organizing Be More Like Jazz?"
Background Reading: "Exploring the Empty Spaces of Organizing: How Improvisational Jazz Helps Redescribe Organizational Structure" Organization Studies, 1999, 20/1, 75-100; "Jazz Time Or Planning on Spontaneity: An Improvisational Theory of Organizational Change," by Frank J. Barrett and Mary Jo Hatch
Introducer: Katherine Lawrence, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
October 24 Professor Charles Sabel, Columbia Law School
Presentation:  "A Theory of Real-Time Revolution"
The ICOS public portion of the workshop:  "Reading Dewey: Augmenting the Foundations of Organization Studies"
Discussants: Professor Chris Ansell, Professor Michael Cohen, and Professor Karl Weick,
Background Reading:  "Pragmatic Collaborations: Advancing Knowledge While Controlling Opportunism," by Susan Helper, John Paul MacDuffie, and Charles Sabel and "A Theory of Real-Time Revolution (lecture notes)"
Introducer: Michael Cohen, School of Information
October 31 Professor Dev Jennings, Strategic Management & Organization, School of Business, University of Alberta
Presentation:  "Discovering the Dynamics of Institutional Environments: Modeling Legal Rule Revision"
Background Reading: "Discovering the Dynamics of Institutional Environments: Modeling Legal Rule Revision"
 Introducer: Christopher Marquis, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
November 7 Professor Brian Little, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Presentation:  "Personal Projects and Organizational Life: Havings, Doings, and Beings in Context"
Background Reading: "Personality and Motivation: Personal Action and the Conative Evolution"
Introducer: Adam Grant, Organizational Psychology, University of Michigan
November 14 Professor Tim Fort, Business Ethics and Business Law and Professor Cindy Schipani, Business Law and The William Davidson Institute Area Director of Corporate Governance, Michigan Business School
Presentation:  "The Role of the Corporation in Fostering Peaceful Societies?"
Background Reading: Reprinted with permission of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law "Adapting Corporate Governance for Sustainable Peace," by Tim Fort and Cindy Schipani
Introducer: Scott Sonenshein, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
November 21 Professor Sim Sitkin, Management, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Presentation: "An Empirical Examination of Leadership as a Determinant of Trust"
Abstract 
Introducer: Marlys Christianson, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
The Likert Dissertation Paper Award Winner
December 5
 Professor David Obstfeld, Organization & Strategy, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine
Presentation:  "Social Networks, Personal Knowledge, and Entrepreneurial Action: An Integrative Approach to Innovation"
Background Reading:  "Knowledge Creation, Social Networks, and the Union Orientation: An Integrative Approach to Innovation Involvement"
Introducer: Professor Wayne Baker, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, Michigan Business School
Positive Organizational Scholarship 2003 Conference - Special ICOS Session
December 12
8:30-10:30 a.m.
 		 "Researchers Use the Lens of Positive Organizational Scholarship to Open New Frontiers (Framing and Reframing a Research Agenda)"
bulletKaren Golden-Biddle, University of Alberta: "Ethnography, Collaboration, and Health Care Change in Front Line Settings"
bulletAmy Edmondson, Harvard University: "Re-framing for Learning: Conducting Research on Teams with a Positive Organizational Scholarship Lens"
bulletWayne Baker, University of Michigan: "Positive Energy Networks"

Background Reading: Edmondson, A.C. (2003). Framing for Learning: Lessons in Successful Technology Implementation (manuscript version).  California Management Review, 45:2, 34-54.  Baker, W., Rob Cross, Melissa Wooten,  "Positive Organizational Network Analysis and Energizing Relationships" from Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline, Kim Cameron, Jane Dutton, and Robert Quinn, editors, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco (2003).
Location:  University of Michigan Business School, Lower Level, Room E0540