Fall 2004 SYLLABUS |
|
| September 10 | Professor Max
Bazerman, Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets, Harvard Business School Presentation: "Predictable Surprises" Background Reading: "Overcoming Focusing Failures in Competitive Environments," Idson, Chugh, Bereby-Meyer, Moran, Grosskopf, Bazerman; "Bounded Awareness: Focusing Failures in Negotiation," Bazerman, Chugh; "Predictable Surprises, Chapter 1: What is a Predictable Surprise? A Preview," Max Bazerman Introducer: Eric Neuman, Management and Organizations Web Page: http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&facEmId=mbazerman |
| Co-Sponsored with the Decision Consortium | |
| September 17 |
Professor Barry
Schwartz, Social Theory and Social Action, Department of Psychology,
Swarthmore College Presentation: "The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less" Background Reading: "Self-Determination: The Tyranny of Freedom," (Jan 2000) American Psychologist, Vol. 55, No. 1, 79-88 Introducer: Adam Grant, Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/ |
|
Session 1: Global Companies and Well-Being (1:30-3:00) Session 2: The View from the Real World (3:30-5:00): All ICOS Participants are welcome to stay for Session 2 |
|
| September 24 |
Professor Jerry
Davis, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000393958 Professor Timothy Fort, Business Ethics & Business Law, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000260912 Professor Richard Price, Organizational Studies, Department of Psychology, Institute of Social Research, Management & Organizations Web Page: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/orgstudies/people_detail.asp?id=268 Presentation: "The Global Corporation and Human Well-Being" Background Readings: Outline for Mini-Conference, The Global Corporation and Human Well-Being Proposal, "Regulation and the Globalization of Corporate and Securities Law," by Jerry Davis; "The Times and Seasons of Corporate Responsibility," by Tim Fort; "Taking Stock of Stakeholder Management," by James Walsh Session 2 Panelists: David Featherman, Director, Institute for Social Research and Center for Advancing Research and solutions for Society; Dave Berdish, Ford Motor Company; Rob Frederick, Ford Motor Company; Matthew Hirchland, Business for Social Responsibility; Robert Mallett, Pfizer |
| October 1 |
Presentation:
"Positive Relationships at Work" Guest Panelists: Steven Duck, University of Iowa; William Kahn, Boston University; and Denise Rousseau, Carnegie Mellon University General Introducer to the Panel: Professor Belle Ragins, School of Business Administration, Organizations & Strategic Management, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Session Introducer: Jane Dutton, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Business/faculty/sbafaculty/ragins.html Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119663 Background Reading: "Exploring Positive Relationships at Work: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation," Jane Dutton, Belle Ragins Location: Michigan Business School, 1st Floor, Room E1540 |
| October 8 |
Professor Frank
Dobbin, Sociology Department, The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University Presentation: "Affirmative Action in Action: Women and Minorities in Management" Background Reading: "Two to Tango: Affirmative Action, Diversity Programs and Women and African-Americans in Management," Alexandra Kalev, Frank Dobbin, Erin Kelly Introducer: Christopher Marquis, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/dobbin/ |
| October 15 |
Professor Art
Brief, Organizational Behavior, A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane
University |
| October 22 |
Professor Charles
Tilly, Social Science, Department of Sociology, Columbia University Presentation: "Trust and Predation" Background Reading: "Trust and Rule," Theory and Society 33 (2004) 1-30 Introducer: Peter Anderson, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.sociology.columbia.edu/people/faculty/tilly/index.html |
| October 29 | Professor Beth
Bechky, Management, Graduate School of Management, University of California-Davis Presentation: "Coordination in Context: A Work-Based Approach to Coordination in Organizations" Background Reading: "Coordination in Context: A Work-Based Approach to Coordination in Organizations" Introducer: Emily Heaphy, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.gsm.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Bechky/ |
| November 5 | Professor Fiona
Lee, Organizational Psychology, Management and Organizations, Michigan
Business School Presentation: "Can Power Change People" Background Reading: "Is it lonely at the top? Independence and interdependence of power holders," F. Lee, L. Tiedens (2001). In B. Staw and R. Sutton (eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior, Vol 23, p. 43-91 Introducer: Sandy Lim, Psychology Web Page: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/directory/profiles/faculty/?uniquename=fionalee |
| November 12 | Professor Mustafa
Emirbayer, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Web Page: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/pages/emirbayerhome.html Professor Victoria Johnson, Management and Organizations, Michigan Business School Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000599249 Presentation: "Bourdieu and Organizational Analysis" Background Reading: "Vive le crise!" in Theory and Society, 17:773-87, 1988; "Some Properties of Fields" in Sociology in Question, pp. 72-77; "Haute Couture and Haute Culture" in Sociology in Question, pp. 132-38; "Programme for a Sociology of Sport" in In Other Words, pp. 156-67, all readings by Pierre Bourdieu Introducer: Baris Buyukokutan, Sociology |
| November 19 | Professor Heather
Elms, Strategy & Ethics, Department of Business & Society, Graduate
School of Business, Central European University at Budapest Presentation: "Lying, Cheating, Stealing -- and the Ring of Gyges" Background Reading: "Book II, The Republic of Plato," "Chapter 4, Acts of Submission," from Social Psychology and Social Relevance, by Alan C. Elms, "Lying, Cheating, Stealing: Groups and the Ring of Gyges," by Amir Erez, Heather Elms, Eric Fong Introducer: Larry Hearld, Health Management and Policy Web Page: http://www.gsb.ceu.hu/page.php?page=70&l=1 |
| Two-Part Series on Imaginative Theorizing | |
| December 3 | Professor Karl
Weick, Management & Organizations, Michigan Business School Presentation: "Imagination in Organizational Studies" Background Reading: "Theory Construction as Disciplined Imagination," Karl Weick, Academy of Management Review 1989; "Clues: Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes," Chapter 4, The Sign of Three, Carlo Ginzburg; "Foresight -- and Hindsight," Chapter 11, The 9/11 Commission Report Introducer: Daniel Gruber, Management & Organizations Web Page: http://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyBios/FacultyBio.asp?id=000119782 |
| December 10 |
Professor Karen
Locke, Organizational Behavior, School of Business Administration, The
College of William & Mary Presentation: "Imaginative Theorizing in Qualitative Research" Background Reading: "You know my method": A juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce and Sherlock Holmes, Chapter 2 in Umberto Eco and Thomas Sebeok (eds.), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Bloomington Indiana University Press and "Imaginative Theorizing in Organizational Research," by Karen Locke, Karen Golden-Biddle, Martha Feldman Introducer: Brianna Barker, Psychology Web Page: http://business.wm.edu/homepage.asp?PID=425 |