ISBN:
1786354357
,
9781786354358
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Research in the sociology of organizations Volume 47
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Personnel management
;
Personnel management
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
Personnel management
;
Organizational theory & behaviour
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
This volume is the product of an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars convened with generous support of the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council. It presents new theoretical and empirical papers that examine aspects of the changing nature of jobs and work in organizations from multiple perspectives and methodologies
Abstract:
Front Cover; The Structuring of Work in Organizations; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Editorial Advisory Board; Introduction: Bringing Jobs Back In: Toward a New Multi-Level Approach to the Study of Work and Organizations; Introduction; Why Study the Structure of Work?; What Do We Know about the Structure/Structuring of Work?; Five Lenses; Need for Multi-Level Theory; Jobs as a Focal Analytic Construct; The Papers in this Volume as a First Step; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: Tasks and Jobs as Building Blocks
Abstract:
Idiosyncratic Jobs can Play a Role in Changing Organizational GoalsSummary of Macro-Organizational Impact of Idiosyncratic Jobs; Micro-Organizational Impact of Idiosyncratic Jobs; Impact on Internal Career Mobility; Idiosyncratic Jobs can Shape Interorganizational Career Mobility; Discussion; Employee Agency in Job Design: Related Constructs of Idiosyncratic Jobs, Job Crafting, I-Deals, and Negotiated Joining; Job Crafting; I-Deals; Negotiated Joining; Job System Ecologies and Demographics; Sample Research Frontier: Idiosyncratic Jobs and Conceptualizations of Job Design and Their Impact
Abstract:
Jobs as Gordian Knots: A New Perspective Linking Individuals, Tasks, Organizations, and InstitutionsIntroduction; Jobs as Bundles; Within Job Components; Organizational Job Components; Extra-Organizational Job Components; The Ties That Bind; Within Job Ties; Job-Organization Ties; Extra-Organizational Ties; Ghosts of Ties Past; Summary; Empirical Challenges and Opportunities; Measuring Jobs; Measuring Ties; Discussion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Idiosyncratic Jobs, Organizational Transformation, and Career Mobility; Introduction
Abstract:
Sample Research Frontier: Normative Theory and Implications for PracticeJobs Should Not Be Designed around Individuals; Jobs Can Usefully Be Crafted around Individuals; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; The Ideology of Silence at the Harvard Business School: Structuring Faculty's Teaching Tasks for Moral Relativism; Introduction; Setting: The Work of the Harvard Business School Faculty; Data and Methods; Faculty Members' Scripted Teaching Tasks; High-Stakes (But Unspecified) Battles; Upholding Moral Relativism via Silence; From Teaching Tasks to Business Morals; Notes; Acknowledgments
Abstract:
Theory, Definitions, and Existence of Idiosyncratic JobsTheory and Definitions: The Vacancy Assumption and Idiosyncratic Jobs; Evidence about Formalized Idiosyncratic Jobs; Impact of Idiosyncratic Jobs in Organizations; Macro-Organizational Impact of Idiosyncratic Jobs; Idiosyncratic Jobs can Enable Adaptive Innovation; Idiosyncratic Jobs can Produce Structural Transformation through Unplanned Variation, Selection, and Retention Processes; Idiosyncratic Jobs can Persist as Part of the Ecologies of Jobs; Idiosyncratic Jobs can be Perceived as Part of the Regular Workings of a Department
Note:
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