Format:
1 Online-Ressource (426 p)
ISBN:
9781786354365
Series Statement:
Research in the Sociology of Organizations v.47
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
Jobs as Gordian Knots: A New Perspective Linking Individuals, Tasks, Organizations, and Institutions -- Introduction -- 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
Content:
Theory, Definitions, and Existence of Idiosyncratic Jobs -- Theory 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
Content:
Idiosyncratic Jobs can be Perceived as Part of the Regular Workings of a Department -- Idiosyncratic Jobs can Play a Role in Changing Organizational Goals -- Summary 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
Content:
Sample Research Frontier: Idiosyncratic Jobs and Conceptualizations of Job Design and Their Impact -- Sample Research Frontier: Normative Theory and Implications for Practice -- Jobs 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
Content:
High-Stakes (But Unspecified) Battles
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786354358
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The structuring of work in organizations Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2016 ISBN 9781786354365
Language:
English
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