The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization

by Ackroyd, Stephen; Batt, Rosemary; Thompson, Paul; Tolbert, Pamela S.

• ISBN13: 9780199299249
• ISBN10: 0199299242
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Work and Organization aims to bring together, present, and discuss what is currently known about work and organizations and their connection to broader economic change in Europe and America. Issues of conceptualization are not neglected but, in contrast to other comparable volumes, the emphasis is firmly on what is known what and has been observed by researchers. The volume contains a range of theoretically informed essays, written by leading authorities in their respective fields, giving comprehensive coverage of changes in work, occupations, and organizations. It constitutes an invaluable overview of the accumulated understanding of research into work, occupations and organizations in recent decades. It shows that in almost every aspect of economic institutions, change has been considerable.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	xi
List of Tables	xii
List of Contributors	xii
Texts and Times: Mapping the Changing Study of Work and Organizations	1	(18)
Stephen Ackroyd
Rosemary Batt
Paul Thompson
Pamela Tolbert
PART I WORK, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR
Introduction	19	(12)
Rosemary Batt
Labor Markets and Flexibility	31	(21)
Jill Rubery
Organizations and the Intersection of Work and Family: A Comparative Perspective	52	(22)
Eileen Appelbaum
Thomas Bailey
Peter Berg
Arne Kalleberg
Gender, Race, and the Restructuring of Work: Organizational and Institutional Perspectives	74	(21)
Leslie McCall
Skill Formation Systems	95	(20)
Colin Crouch
Technology and the Transformation of Work	115	(23)
Richard John Badham
Groups, Teams, and the Division of Labor: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Organization of Work	138	(39)
Rosemary Batt
Virginia Doellgast
PART II MANAGERIAL REGIMES AND EMPLOYEE ACTIONS
Introduction	165	(12)
Paul Thompson
The Diffusion and Domestication of Managerial Innovations: The Spread of Scientific Management, Quality Circles, and TQM between the United States and Japan	177	(23)
David Strang
Young-mi Kim
Managers, Markets, and Ideologies: Design and Devotion Revisited	200	(20)
Gideon Kunda
Galit Ailon-Souday
Human Resource Management	220	(22)
Karen Legge
Knowledge Management	242	(21)
Alan McKinlay
Industrial Relations and Work	263	(20)
Harry Katz
Labor Movements and Mobilization	283	(22)
John Kelly
Resistance, Misbehavior, and Dissent	305	(33)
David Collinson
Stephen Ackroyd
PART III OCCUPATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Introduction	329	(9)
Pamela S. Tolbert
Manual Workers: Conflict and Control	338	(18)
Laurie Graham
Service Workers in Search of Decent Work	356	(20)
Stephen J. Frenkel
What We Know (and Mostly Don't Know) about Technical Work	376	(28)
Stephen R. Barley
The Changing Nature of Professional Organizations	404	(21)
C. R. Hinings
Ports and Ladders: The Nature and Relevance of Internal Labor Markets in a Changing World	425	(37)
Paul Osterman
M. Diane Burton
PART IV ORGANIZING AND ORGANIZATIONS
Introduction	449	(13)
Stephen Ackroyd
Organizations and Organized Systems: From Direct Control to Flexibility	462	(23)
Stephen Procter
Post-Bureaucracy?	485	(23)
Mats Alvesson
Paul Thompson
Interfirm Relations as Networks	508	(22)
Grahame Thompson
Changes in the Organization of Public Services and their Effects on Employment Relations	530	(24)
Robert Hebdon
Ian Kirkpatrick
Understanding Multinational Corporations	554	(23)
Glenn Morgan
Corporate Restructuring	577	(25)
William Lazonick
Beyond Convergence and Divergence: Explaining Variations in Organizational Practices and Forms	602	(24)
Chris Smith
Index	626