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Individuals, Groups, and Organizations

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Covers classic and contemporary theories and research related to individuals, groups, and organizations. Designed primarily for doctoral students in the Sloan School of Management who wish to familiarize themselves with research by psychologists, sociologists, and management scholars in the area commonly known as micro organizational behavior. Topics may include motivation, decision making, negotiation, power, influence, group dynamics, and leadership.

Fall 2006

Topics

  • Introduction: Multiple levels and paradigms
  • Learning from experience
  • Identity, power, and change in organizations
  • Behavioral decision theory and negotiation
  • Attitudes and cognition
  • Job performance
  • Networks (and power?)
  • Groups and teams
  • External perspective on teams
  • Culture
  • Organizing and designing organizations
  • Technology and organizations
  • Organizational and enterprise change

Readings

  • Astley, W. Graham, van de Ven, and H. Andrew. “Central Perspectives and Debates in Organization Theory.” Administrative Science Quarterly 28, no. 2 (1983): 245-273.
    Listed reading
  • Staw, M. Barry, Lance E. Sandelands, and Jane E. Dutton. “Threat-rigidity Effects in Organizational Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis.” Administrative Science Quarterly 26, no. 4 (1981): 501-524.
    Listed reading
  • Reger, K. Rhonda, and Timothy B. Palmer. “Managerial Categorization of Competitors: Using Old Maps to Navigate New Environments.” Organization Science 7, no. 1 (1996): 22-39.
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  • Sutton, I. Robert, and Barry M. Staw. “What Theory Is Not.” Administrative Science Quarterly 40, no. 3 (1995): 371-384.
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  • Barley, R. Stephen, and Gideon Kunda. “Bringing Work Back In.” Organization Science 12, no. 1 (2001): 76-95.
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  • Ellis, Shmuel, and Inbar Davidi. “After-event Reviews: Drawing Lessons from Successful and Failed Experience.” Journal of Applied Psychology 90, no. 5 (2005): 857-871.
    Listed reading
  • Edmondson, Amy. “Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams.” Administrative Science Quarterly 44, no. 2 (1999): 350-383.
    Listed reading
  • Berman, L. Shawn, Jonathan Down, and Charles W. L. Hill. “Tacit Knowledge as a Source of Competitive Advantage in the National Basketball Association.” Academy of Management Journal 45, no. 1 (2002): 13-31.
    Listed reading
  • Staw, M. Barry, and Sigal G. Barsade. “Affect and Managerial Performance: A Test of the Sadder-but-wiser vs. Happier-and-smarter Hypotheses.” Administrative Science Quarterly 38, no. 2 (1993): 304-331.
    Listed reading
  • What do you think should be the next step in the Ellis and Davidi (2005) line of research?
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  • Miller, L. Marc, and John Van Maanen. “Getting into Fishing: Observations on the Social Identities of New England Fishermen.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 11, no. 1 (1982): 27-54.
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  • Meyerson, E. Debra, and Maureen A. Scully. “Tempered Radicalism and the Politics of Ambivalence and Change.” Organization Science 6, no. 5 (1995): 585-600.
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  • Ashford, J. Susan, Nancy P. Rothbard, Sandy Kristin Piderit, and Jane E. Dutton. “Out on a Limb: The Role of Context and Impression Management in Selling Gender-equity Issues.” Administrative Science Quarterly 43, no. 1 (1998): 23-57.
    Listed reading
  • Barley, Stephen R. “Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments.” Administrative Science Quarterly 31, no. 1 (1986): 78-108.
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  • Tversky, Amos, and Daniel Kahneman. “Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases.” Science 185, no. 4157 (1974): 1124-1131.
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  • Grether, M. David, and Charles R. Plott. “Economic Theory of Choice and the Preference Reversal Phenomenon.” American Economic Review 69, no. 4 (1979): 623-638.
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  • Ross, L., and A. Ward. “Naïve Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding.” In Values and Knowledge (Jean Piaget Symposium Series) . Edited by Edward Reed, Elliot Turiel, and Terrance Brown. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996, pp. 103-135. ISBN: 9780805815214.
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  • Bazerman, H. Max, Jared R. Curhan, and Don A. Moore. “The Death and Rebirth of the Social Psychology of Negotiation.” Chapter 8 in Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes . Edited by Margaret Clark and Garth Fletcher. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2002, pp. 196-228. ISBN: 9780631212294.
    Listed reading
  • Petty, Richard, and John Cacioppo. Attitudes and Persuasion: Classic and Contemporary Approaches . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, pp. 3-29 and 255-269. ISBN: 9780813330051.
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  • Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. “Commitment and Social Organization: A Study of Commitment Mechanisms in Utopian Communities.” American Sociological Review 33, no. 4 (1968): 499-517.
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  • Fiske, Susan, and Shelley Taylor. Social Cognition . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1991, pp. 22-56. ISBN: 9780071009102.
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  • Carroll, John S. “Out of the Lab and into the Field: Decision Making in Organizations.” In Social Psychology in Organizations: Advances in Theory and Research . Edited by Keith Murnighan. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993, pp. 38-62. ISBN: 9780133740592.
    Listed reading
  • Zemba, Yuriko, Maia J. Young, and Michael W. Morris. “Blaming Leaders for Organizational Accidents: Proxy Logic in Collective- versus Individual-Agency Cultures.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 101, no. 1 (2006): 36-51.
    Listed reading
  • Rotundo, Maria, and Paul R. Sackett. “The Relative Importance of Task, Citizenship, and Counterproductive Performance to Global Ratings of Job Performance: A Policy-capturing Approach.” Journal of Applied Psychology 87, no. 1 (2002): 66-80.
    Listed reading
  • Podsakoff, M. Philip, Scott B. MacKenzie, Julie Beth Paine, and Daniel G. Bachrach. “Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Critical Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature and Suggestions for Future Research.” Journal of Management 26, no. 3 (2000): 513-563.
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  • Sackett, P., and C. Devore. “Counterproductive Behaviors at Work.” In Handbook of Industrial, Work and Organizational Psychology: Personnel Psychology . Edited by Neil Anderson, Denis Ones, Handan Sinangil and Chockalingam Viswesvaran. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2002, pp. 145-164. ISBN: 9780761964889.
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  • Dalal, Reeshad S. “A Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Counterproductive Work Behavior.” Journal of Applied Psychology 90, no. 6 (2005): 1241-1255.
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  • Levine, John, and Richard Moreland. “Small Groups.” Chapter 26 in The Handbook of Social Psychology. Vol. 2. Edited by Daniel Gilbert, Susan Fiske, and Gardner Lindzey. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 415-469. ISBN: 9780195213768.
    Listed reading
  • Phillips, W. Katherine, and Denise Lewin Loyd. “When Surface and Deep-level Diversity Collide: The Effects on Dissenting Group Members.” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 99, no. 2 (2006): 143-160.
    Listed reading
  • Barker, James R. “Tightening the Iron Cage: Concertive Control in Self-managing Teams.” Administrative Science Quarterly 38, no. 3 (1993): 408-437.
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  • Hinds, J. Pamela, and Mark Mortensen. “Understanding Conflict in Geographically Distributed Teams: The Moderating Effects of Shared Identity, Shared Context, and Spontaneous Communication.” Organization Science 16, no. 3 (2005): 290-307.
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  • Bresman, Henrik. “ Lessons Learned and Lessons Lost: A Multi-method Field Study of Vicarious Team Learning Behaviour and Performance .” INSEAD Working Paper, 2006. ↗
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  • Ancona, G. Deborah, and David F. Caldwell. “Bridging the Boundary: External Activity and Performance in Organizational Teams.” Administrative Science Quarterly 37, no. 4 (1992): 634-661.
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  • Ancona, Deborah, and Mary J. Waller. “The Dance of Entrainment: Temporally Navigating across Multiple Pacers.” In Research in the Sociology of Work. Vol. 17, Workplace Temporalities . Edited by Beth Rubin. Forthcoming, 2007.
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  • Van Maanen, John. “Rediscovering Japan: Some Thoughts on Change and Continuity in Traditional Japanese Careers.” Career Development International 11, no. 4 (2006): 280-292.
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  • Van Maanen, John, and Edgar G. Schein. “Identity Work: Notes on the Personal Identity of Police Officers.” MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper, 1988.
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  • Van Maanen, John. “The Smile Factory: Work at Disneyland.” Chapter 4 in Reframing Organizational Culture . Edited by Peter Frost, Larry Moore, Meryl Louis, Craig Lundberg, and Joanne Martin. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1991, pp. 58-76. ISBN: 9780803936515.
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  • Galbraith, Jay R. Designing Complex Organizations . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1973, pp. 8-21. ISBN: 9780201025590.
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  • ———. Designing Organizations: An Executive Guide to Strategy, Structure, and Process . San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2001, chapters 2 and 3. ISBN: 9780787957452.
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  • Scott, W. Richard. Organizations: Rational, Natural, and Open Systems . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002, chapters 9 and 10. ISBN: 9780130165596.
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  • Dunbar, L. M. Roger, and William H. Starbuck. “Learning to Design Organizations and Learning from Designing Them.” Organization Science 17, no. 2 (2006): 171-178.
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  • Yoo, Youngjin, Richard J. Boland, Jr., and Kalle Lyytinen. “From Organization Design to Organization Designing.” Organization Science 17, no. 2 (2006): 215-229.
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  • Malone, Thomas W. The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style and Your Life . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2004, pp. 3-13. ISBN: 9781591391258.
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  • Constant, David, Lee Sproull, and Sara Kiesler. “The Kindness of Strangers: The Usefulness of Electronic Weak Ties for Technical Advice.” Organization Science 7, no. 2 (1996): 119-135.
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  • Hinds, J. Pamela, and Diane E. Bailey. “Out of Sight, Out of Sync: Understanding Conflict in Distributed Teams.” Organization Science 14, no. 6 (2003): 615-632.
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  • Orlikowski, Wanda J. “Improvising Organizational Transformation over Time: A Situated Change Perspective.” Information Systems Research 7, no. 1 (1996): 63-92.
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  • Yates, Joanne. “How Business Enterprises Use Technology: Extending the Demand-side Turn.” Enterprise and Society 7, no. 3 (2006): 422-455.
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  • Kotter, John P. “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail.” Harvard Business Review 73, no. 2 (1995): pp. 59-67.
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  • Collins, Jim. “Level 5 Leadership.” Harvard Business Review 79, no. 1 (2001): 66-76.
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  • Dyer, H. Jeffrey, and Nile W. Hatch. “Using Supplier Networks to Learn Faster.” MIT Sloan Management Review 45, no. 3 (2004): 57-63.
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  • Spear, Steven, and H. Kent Bowen. “Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System.” Harvard Business Review 77, no. 5 (1999): 96-106.
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  • Beer, M. “Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O.” In Handbook of Organization Development . Edited by Thomas Cummings. London, UK: Sage Publications Ltd, 2007. ISBN: 9780761928126.
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  • Robertson, J. Peter, Darryl R. Roberts, and Jerry I. Porras. “Dynamics of Planned Organizational Change: Assessing Empirical Support for a Theoretical Model.” Academy of Management Journal 36, no. 3 (1993): 619-634.
    Recommended
  • Kleiner, Art. “ Climbing to Greatness with Jim Collins .” Strategy+Business (Fourth Quarter, 2001): 1-11. ↗
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  • Liker, K. Jeffrey, and James M. Morgan. “The Toyota Way in Services: The Case of Lean Product Development.” Academy of Management Perspectives 20, no. 2 (2006): 5-20.
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  • MacDuffie, John Paul, and Susan Helper. “Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production through the Supply Chain.” California Management Review 39, no. 4 (1997): 118-151.
    Recommended

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) 3-0-9 units

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