Organizational Membership

Personal Development in the Workplace

AvHowell S. Baum

Inbunden, Engelska, 1990

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Beskrivning

This book tells why people want to feel like members of work organizations, and why doing so is difficult. Using case examples, it presents a psychoanalytic perspective on organizational entry and the process of entry negotiations for workers which sometimes lasts years. Interview material shows how workers try to use organizations to develop and how entire careers reflect satisfaction or disappointment with initial organizational experiences.Baum presents a useful framework for interpreting organizational behavior in terms of workers' efforts to develop. He shows how developmental expectations must be met before workers can identify with organizational goals or feel close to colleagues, and how worker motivation is possible only in organizations that meet individuals' growth needs.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1990-08-27
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations
Antal sidor:290
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791403853

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Howell S. Baum is Professor at the University of Maryland's Institute for Urban Studies.

Recensioner i media

"This is an innovative integration of psychoanalytic theory, sociology of organizations, and consultation that goes beyond sociology, psychoanalysis, industrial psychology and career studies to undergird all of them with a more complex and sophisticated conceptualization focused on career choice and career development. Not many 'how to' books offer a solid theoretical base; not many theoretical books offer modes of ready application. This book does both in an eminently readable way." — Harry Levinson, Levinson Institute and Harvard University Medical School

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part One: Experiencing Organizational Work 1.Organizational Experience: What People Expect of Work Organizations2. The Developmental Meanings of Work Part Two: Initiation into Organizational Roles 3. Organizational Demands of the New Worker: Sociological and Anthropological Accounts4. The New Worker Responds: A Psychoanalytic View Part Three: Trying to Grow at Work 5. Becoming a Member: Looking for Work Ability, Work Identity, and Organizational Affiliation6. Growing In and Out of the Organization: Mentoring and Making Sense Part Four: Disappointment and Its Consequences 7. Working Without Belonging: Fixation on Recognition, Autonomy, and Power8. Disappointments Remediable and Irremediable: Playing Toward Membership or Withdrawal Part Five: Organizational Membership: Problems and Possibilities 9. How Organizational Politics Hinders Organizational Affiliations10. Worker Development and Organizational Development Appendix: The Research Notes References Index