M710 Syllabus Spring 2001

Dr. Mike McCullough

Phone: 901 425 3316

Fax: 901 425 3319

Email: or

Course website: http://www.utm.edu/~mikem/mikemc~1.htm

Office Martin: School of Business Building Room 120 Hours: 1:30-2:30 MW and by arrangement

Office Jackson: Lambuth Jones Hall Room 214 Hours: 9-11 T-F and by arrangement

Objective

This course is designed to be an inquiry into the methods, rationale, and values or organizing. The units of analysis will be the organization, the individual as part of the organization and inter-organizational relationships.

Texts

Gabriel, Y., Fineman, S. & Sims, D. (2000). Organizing and Organizations, 2nd ed., London: Sage.

Marion, R. (1999). The Edge of Organization, Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Schedule

January 11 Introduction & Life as creation of wealth

January 18 Sensemaking/Making Sense in O’s: Gold Nuggets, Signal Events and Cautionary Tales; Digital versus analog dilemma

January 25 O&O Chapters 1-4

February 1 O&O Chapters 5-8

February 8 O&O Chapters 9-12

February 15 O&O Chapters 13-16

February 22 O&O Chapters 17-20

March 1 EofO Chapters 1-5

March 8 EofO Chapter 6-8

March 22 EofO Chapter 9 & 10

March 29 EofO Chapter 11-13

April 5 EofO Chapter 14-16

April 12 Authority and Change; Sleepwalkers

April 19 The comedy of politics; Pathology and Effectiveness

April 26 Ludema on Hope; Wrap-up

Research Paper

The paper should be submitted using American Psychological Association (APA) Style. The paper should be from 2 to 4 thousand words long. You must have at least five citations (each with a corresponding reference). Along with your paper you should submit an abstract of between 150 and 200 words. You should also prepare to field questions from the class regarding your paper. The questions you are asked will be derived from the abstract you distribute to the class.

Research Paper Topics

You may choose to write a paper on one of the following topics, or one of your own choosing:

Justice

Social capital

Citizenship behavior

The escalation of commitment to a failed course of action

Organizational effectiveness

Webs of inclusion

Well being

The sometimes short distance between autocracy and democracy

The future of leadership in organizations

What women can teach men about management

What men can teach women about power

The importance of spirituality in organizations

What we can learn about organizational theory (organizational behavior) from: (Movie, book, TV show)

The future of work

Managing paradox

Management versus leadership

Why individuals and organizations underachieve

Zen and the art of organizational management

How structure affects organizational effectiveness

Lessons from:

Valujet Crash

Challenger Disaster

Paducah & Oak Ridge

Champion International Paper

Union Carbide

Grade determination

Exams Midterm 30%

Final 40%

Research paper 20%

Class Participation 10%

Exam grades

Exams will be all essays. The essays will be graded on clarity of expression, insight, organization, and coverage of the question.

Class rules

Anticipated absences should be discussed with the instructor. The midterm exam is in-class. The final is take-home. The final will pertain mainly to the second half of the class, but may draw inspiration from the first half as well. If you use sources for the answers to the take-home exam, you should give these sources as citations in the body of the paper and references at the end of the paper. Classmates are inappropriate sources.

Reading

Reading should be completed by the date listed on the Syllabus.

Question and answer

You will be expected to submit an abstract of your paper for everyone in the class by April 5th. You should also submit two questions, one for two separate abstracts, to be asked and answered in class (by the author of the abstract). This means each student will be the author of one abstract and two questions and the responder to one or more questions. Questions submitted by April 12th. The instructor will serve as moderator of the question and answer session. Please do not read anything in to one student getting more discussion time than another. We will have authors respond to questions beginning on April 16th.

APA Style

NOTES IN TEXT

The APA calls its style "reference citations in text" and discusses them in detail on pages 168-174 of its manual. Each time you quote from another work or wish to refer to it, use the author’s name (or title, if that is how it appears in your bibliography) followed by the publication date in parentheses.

Example:

Smith (1995) compared reaction times … In a recent study of reaction times, Smith (1995) found … On the decision to provide free child care ("Study Finds," 1989) … The book College Bound Seniors (1978) …

BOOKS

(indent) Author, A. A.(Ed.). (date). Title of the book. Location: Publisher.

Give inclusive page numbers of the article or chapter in parentheses after the title.

Craik, F. I. (Ed.). (1989). Varieties of memory and consciousness. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Mitchell, T. R., & Larson, J. R., Jr. (1987). People in organizations: An introduction to organizational

behavior (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.

O’Neil, J. M., & Egan, J. (1992). Men’s and women’s gender role journeys: Metaphor for healing,

transition, and transformation. In B. R. Wainrib (Ed.), Gender issues across the life cycle

(pp. 107-123). New York: Springer.

LECTURES, SPEECHES, and ADDRESSES

Sabato, L. (1991, 29 October). Politics on the edge. Talk presented for the Window Series at

Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA.

PERIODICALS

Deutsch, F. M., & Servis, L. J. (1993). Husbands at home: Predictors of paternal participation in

childcare and housework. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1154-1166.

Henry, W. A., (1990, September 9). Beyond the melting pot. Time, 135, 28-31

WORLD WIDE WEB SOURCES

All references begin with the same information that would be provided for a printed source (or as much of that information as possible). The Web information is then placed at the end of the reference. It is important to use "Retrieved (date) from" because documents on the Web may change in content, move, or be removed from a site altogether.
Article in a Journal

Jacobson, J. W., & Schwartz, A. A. (1995). A history of facilitated communication: Science, pseudoscience, and antiscience: Science working group on facilitated communication. American Psychologist, 50, 750-765. Retrieved January 25, 1998 from the World Wide Web: http://www.apa.org/journals/jacobson.html

Books

Nesbit, E. (1908). Ballads and lyrics of socialism. London: Ashley. Retrieved April 26, 1997 from the World Wide Web: http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/nesbit/ballsoc.html

Newspaper Article:

Sleek, S. (1996, January). Psychologists build a culture of peace. APA Monitor, pp. 1, 33

[Newspaper, selected stories on line]. Retrieved January 25, 1996 from the World Wide Web:

http://www.apa.org/monitor/peacea.html

Scholarly Projects and Professional Sites

American Psychological Association. (1995, September 15). APA public policy action alert:

Legislation would affect grant recipients [Announcement posted on the World Wide Web]. Washington,

DC: Author. Retrieved January 25, 1996 from the World Wide Web: http://www.apa.org/ppo/istook.html

Men and Women Differ in Brain Structures. (April 23, 1999). Mental Health Net & CMHC Systems.

Retrieved April 29, 1999 from the World Wide Web: http://mentalhelp.net/articles/brain3.htm

[APA reference information Retrieved January 9, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://sapphire.pvcc.cc.va.us/library/apadocu.htm ]