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Title The structuring of work in organizations / edited by Lisa E. Cohen, M. Diane Burton, Michael Lounsbury
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Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016

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Series Research in the sociology of organizations ; Volume 47
Research in the sociology of organizations ; Volume 47.
Contents 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
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
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
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
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 9, 2016)
Subject Personnel management.
Organizational theory & behaviour.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Personnel management
Form Electronic book
Author Cohen, Lisa.
Burton, M. Diane.
Lounsbury, Michael.
LC no. 2016448673
ISBN 1786354357
9781786354358