FALL 1997 SYLLABUS

Sept. 5 "Current Research in the ICOS Community: A Sampler"
Presentation: Featuring ten minute presentations by current and new members of the UM organizational studies community describing their current research agendas.
Featured Speakers: Will Mitchell, Corporate Strategy & International Business; Mark Mizruchi, Sociology; Laurie Morgan, Institute for Research on Women & Gender; Robert Quinn, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management; Anat Rafaeli, Organizational Psychology
Sept. 12 Discussion: The work of Professor Edwin L. Hutchins prior to his presentation on September 19 (see readings listed below)
Discussion Moderator: Stephanie Teasley, Assistant Research Scientist, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, Business School
Sept. 19 Professor Edwin L. Hutchins, University of California-San Diego, Cognitive Science Department
Presentation: "The Scope of Distributed Cognition"
Background Reading: "How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speed," by Edwin Hutchins; "Distributed Cognition in an Airline Cockpit," by Edwin Hutchins and Tove Klausen; "How to invent a lexicon: The development of shared symbols in interaction," by Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst; and "Learning in the Cultural Process," by Edwin Hutchins and Brian Hazlehurst
Sept. 26 Presentation: Forum "Organizational Change in Transition Economies"
Location: UM Business School, Room #K1320, reception to follow in Executive Residence
Moderator: Professor Daniel Denison, University of Michigan Business School
Guest Speakers: Professor Paul Lawrence, Harvard Business School; Professor Karen Newman, Georgetown University; Professor Meinolf Dierkes, Wissenschalftzentrun Berlin fur Sozialforsaching
Oct. 3 Professor Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University, Department of Psychology
Presentation: "Basking in Reflected Glory: Self-Presentation via Raw Association"
Background Reading: "Social Influence and the Triple Tumor Structure of Organizational Dishonesty," by Robert B. Cialdini
Oct. 10 Professor Jane Banaszak-Holl, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Presentation: "Specialization As a Strategy in the Nursing Home Industry"
Background Reading: "The impact of market and organizational characteristics on nursing care facility service innovation: A resource dependency perspective," by J. Banaszak-Holl, J.S. Zinn, and V. Mor.
Oct. 17 Professor Anat Rafaeli, University of Michigan, Organizational Psychology
Presentation: "Self Presentation and Self Validation: Observations of Employment Advertising and Letters of Application for Employment"
Background Reading: "Employment Advertising and Employee Socialization: Organizational Contributions to Society," and Validation in Self Presentation: Impression Management in Letters of Application for Employment"
Oct. 24 Professor Steve Mick, University of Michigan, School of Public Health
Presentation: "Organizations and Stratification: The Case of International Medical Graduates"
Background Reading: "Sector Theory, Stratification, and Health Policy: Foreign and U.S. Medical Graduates in Medical Practice"
Oct. 31 Professor Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao, University of Michigan Business School
Presentation: "The Formation of Technical Criteria: The role of reliability competitions in the early American automobile industry"
Background Reading: "Tests Tell: Institutional Dynamics of Performance Measurement in the American Automobile Industry; 1895-1912"
Nov. 7 Professor Roy Baumeister, Case Western Reserve University, Social Psychology
Presentation: "Self-Control and Ego Depletion: Destructive Patterns Involving Emotion, Risk Taking, Decisions, Passivity, and Temptations"
Background Reading: "Ego Depletion: Is the Active Self a Limited Resource?," by Roy Baumeister, Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, and Dianne M. Tice; "Esteem Threat, Self-Regulatory Breakdown, and Emotional Distress as Factors in Self-Defeating Behavior," by Roy Baumeister; "Why Do Bad Moods Increase Self-Defeating Behavior? Emotion, Risk Taking, and Self-Regulation," by Roy Baumeister, Karen Pezza Leith
Series: Non-Profit Organizations (Two-part series organized by Diane Vinokur)
Nov. 14 Professor Burton Weisbrod, Institute for Policy Research/Dept. of Economics, Northwestern University
Presentation: "To Profit or Not to Profit: The Commercialism Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector"
Background Reading: "The Future of the Nonprofit Sector: Its Entwining with Private Enterprise and Government"
Nov. 21 Professor Helmut K. Anheier, Johns Hopkins University, Institute for Policy Studies
Presentation: "The Emerging Sector: A Cross-National Study of Non-Governmental Organizations"
Background Reading: : "The Civil Society Sector," by Lester M. Salamon and Helmut K. Anheier
Dec. 5 Professor John Mohr, University of California-Santa Barbara, Sociology
Presentation: "Why Organizational Ecology Should (And Can) Become an Interpretive Social Science"
Background Reading: "The Differentiation of Institutional Space: Organizational Forms in the New York Social Welfare Sector, 1888-1917," by John Mohr and Francesca Guerra-Pearson.