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Take back control of your career journey In the newly revised
edition of Career Anchors: Finding Stability and Opportunity in the
Changing Nature of Work, a team of world-renowned management and
culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your
own career values and work relationships as they relate to your
past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination
with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible
self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing
career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor
categories. This book will help you: Explore how your work choices
now relate to your family and self-development Explore how the
rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes
globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability,
uncertainty, and shifting values Engage in a powerful relationship
mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career
choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends,
and community Review the career anchor values and examine how these
values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when,
where, and how to work as you look ahead This newest edition of
Career Anchors is a can’t-miss resource written to help you
analyze, assess, and understand the past, present, and future of
your own career. It belongs in the libraries of early-career—as
well as established—professionals looking to take back control
over their work trajectories.
The inaugural book in a new series sponsored by the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) it is designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science that have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behavior. In this volume, editor John Van Maanen selects and introduces the compendium of ASQ articles on qualitative research. Each article serves as an exemplar of well-written, substantively focused, and theoretically relevant qualitative research. As a group, the articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics, and level of analysis. The studies are spread across four areas of research: organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identity and change, and the societal and institutional environment. Organizations studied include factories, churches, universities, engineering groups, fisheries, voluntary organizations, basketball teams, pop music recording firms, and more. The authors of the works represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, political science, communication, management studies, and history.
For at least a decade, the function of the ethnographer's work as
simple cultural description has been challenged. In response,
ethnographic texts have been deconstructed for their origins, their
biases, and their literary devices--all of which have resulted in
heightened methodological self-consciousness and a concern for
reflexivity. This volume explores many of the dimensions of the
representational challenges facing contemporary ethnography. The
distinguished contributors--Van Maanen, Manning, Wolcott, Agar,
Fine, Richardson, and others--cover topics such as fieldnotes; the
role of description, narrative, humor, and acknowledgments; the
relationship between ethnography and other forms of writing; and
alternative means of presenting ethnographic work. Anyone
interested in qualitative methods, particularly ethnography, and
those who are involved in the examination of the inner workings of
ethnographic writing will consider this a valuable work.
This book provides one of the first clear-headed assessments of information technology and organizational transformation. Its virtue is not so much in its recognition of the importance of the subject; speculations on this topic have been rampant for more than a decade. Rather, it is unusual and unusually useful, because it avoids speculation in favor of conceptually coherent accounts grounded in empirical study of actual organizations. The chapters contained in this volume move beyond the superficial glorification of information technology as an extraordinary instrument of social change, and straight to the heart of the mechanisms of change as they play out in everyday organizational life. In the process, they reaffirm that the real story of information technology in organizations is more about people than about technology. Taken together, they provide an important contribution to the intellectual foundations of one of the most interesting developments in decades. Information Technology and Organizational Transformation consists of three parts. The first consists of studies that take an historical perspective on informational technology and organizational transformation. The second set of chapters deals with the rhetoric of information technology and organizational transformation. The third section concerns the practices that emerge when a new information technology is made available to organizational members. Do practices change? How so? These are the questions that in our view are central to any serious consideration of organizational transformation. This volume contains several important articles first published in the Spring 1996 special issue of ISR co-edited by Yates and Van Maanen, and subsequently in several cases updated for this volume. In addition, four new articles were added and the book was divided into the three sections highlighted in the subtitle: history, rhetoric, and practice. New articles include three focused on the rhetoric surrounding IT and organizational change: Suzanne Iacono and Robert Kling on "...The Rise of the Internet and Distant Forms of Work"; by John R. Weeks, on IT "...in a Culture of Complaint:...:; and Charles Bazerman on "Political Participation in the Age of the Internet." In addition, there is a paper in the Practice section by Brian Pentland, entitled "Big Brother Goes Portable: Enduser Computing in the Internal Revenue Service." Includes a preface by John King, now Dean of the School of Information, University of Michigan.
For more than twenty years, John Van Maanen's "Tales of the
Field "has been a definitive reference and guide for students,
scholars, and practitioners of ethnography and beyond. Originally
published in 1988, it was the one of the first works to detail and
critically analyze the various styles and narrative conventions
associated with written representations of culture. This is a book
about the deskwork of fieldwork and the various ways culture is put
forth in print. The core of the work is an extended discussion and
illustration of three forms or genres of cultural
representation--realist tales, confessional tales, and
impressionist tales. The novel issues raised in "Tales "concern
authorial voice, style, truth, objectivity, and point-of-view. Over
the years, the work has both reflected and shaped changes in the
field of ethnography.
In this second edition, Van Maanen's substantial new Epilogue
charts and illuminates changes in the field since the book's first
publication. Refreshingly humorous and accessible, "Tales of the
Field" remains an invaluable introduction to novices learning the
trade of fieldwork and a cornerstone of reference for veteran
ethnographers.
The inaugural book in a new series sponsored by the Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) it is designed to focus and stimulate thinking on those areas of administrative science that have most profoundly shaped the development of organizational theory and behavior. In this volume, editor John Van Maanen selects and introduces the compendium of ASQ articles on qualitative research. Each article serves as an exemplar of well-written, substantively focused, and theoretically relevant qualitative research. As a group, the articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics, and level of analysis. The studies are spread across four areas of research: organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identity and change, and the societal and institutional environment. Organizations studied include factories, churches, universities, engineering groups, fisheries, voluntary organizations, basketball teams, pop music recording firms, and more. The authors of the works represent a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, political science, communication, management studies, and history.
Managing for the Future is an innovative approach to teaching
organizational behavior based on the course at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. The text first presents the new
organization, examining it through strategic, political, and
cultural lenses. Then the role and impact of teams and central
issues facing the organization itself are explored. The last
section of the text focuses on skills--the goal being not only to
present the new organization but also illustrate how students can
become better actors within it. Each of the 14 modules provides
many instructional options through cases, readings, exercises and
projects. Managing for the Future's modular format allows for even
greater flexibility, allowing instructors to select only the topics
they need to suit their course needs. Managing for the Future's
flexible design and its' experiential-based approach make the text
and appealing choice for today's MBA students.
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