Answer these questions, essay based response to each questions and 1000 words per question. Important : use the references attached to make a connection or what you are answering for, it need to be from one of these topics from the relevant readings. We are aiming for quality references and connection for instance using 3 sources and critically discussing it with the relevance of answering the questions is better than just simply using 7/8 references.
“Leadership is a relational phenomenon”. Critically discuss this statement with
reference to one or more topics on the module.
“Top-down hierarchical models of decision making are a thing of the past”. Critically
discuss this statement with reference to one or more topics on the module.
below is the references available from the module, write a 1000 word response to each of the questions above and cite which references you have used from the one given below to show you have related to one or more topics of this module.
1. Introduction
Grugulis, I. 2017. Human Resource Management, London: Sage, ch. 1.
Legge, K. 1999, ‘Representing People at Work’, Organization, 6(2): 247-264.
2. The Origins of Management
S eminar reading
Braverman, H. (1974) ‘The Origins of Management’, from Labour and Monopoly Capitalism, London: Monthly Review Press, 59-69.
Indicative further readings
Management, control and resistance
Ackroyd, S. and Thompson, P. (1999) ‘The Recalcitrant Worker’ from Organizational
Misbehaviour, London: Sage, 31-52.
Braverman, H. (1974) ‘Labor and Labor Power’, from Labour and Monopoly Capitalism, London:
Monthly Review Press, 45-58.
Edwards, R (1979), ‘Three Faces from the Hidden Abode’ from Contested Terrain: The
Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, London: Heinemann.
Pollard, S. (1965) ‘The Adaptation of the Labour Force’ from The Genesis of Modern Management, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Englander, E. J. (1987) The Inside Contract System of Production and Organization: A neglected aspect of the theory of the firm, Labor History, 28(4): 429-446.
Unitarism and pluralism
Fox, A. (1966) ‘Managerial Ideology and Labour Relations’, British Journal of Industrial Relations,
4(1-3): 366-378.
Greenwood, M and van Buren, H.J. (2017), ‘Ideology in HRM Scholarship: Interrogating the
Ideological Performativity of ‘New Unitarism”, Journal of Business Ethics, 142: 663-678. Legge, K (1999) ‘Representing People at Work’, in Organization, 6(2): 247-264.
FORMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
3. Taylorism and Scientific Management
Seminar reading
Hollway, W. (1991) ‘Scientific Management and the Task Idea’, from Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour, London: Sage, 13-33.
Further readings
Braverman, H. (1974), ‘The Division of Labour’, ‘Scientific Management’, ‘The Primary Effects of Scientific Management’, from Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, London: Monthly Review Press,70-84, 85-123, 124-138.
Derksen, M. (2014), ‘Turning Men into Machines? Scientific Management, Industrial Psychology, and the ‘Human Factor”, Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 50(2): 148-165.
Edwards, R (1979), ‘The Ambiguous Results of Scientific Management’ from Contested Terrain: The Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, London: Heinemann pp. 97-104.
Grey, C (2013) ‘Bureaucracy and Scientific Management’, from A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations, London: Sage, 19-41.
Hoxie, R (1916) ‘Scientific Management and Labor Welfare’, Journal of Political Economy, 24(9): 833-854.
Stewart, M. (2009) ‘The Pig Iron Tale’ from The Management Myth, New York: Norton, 17-42.
Taylor, F. W. (1919), The Principles of Scientific Management, Harper Brothers & Co., New York – especially opening 20 pages.
4. Bureaucratic Management
Seminar reading
Grey, C (2013) ‘Bureaucracy and Scientific Management’, from A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations, London: Sage, 19-41
Further readings
Edwards, R (1979) ‘Bureaucratic Control’, from Contested Terrain: The Transformation of Work in the Twentieth Century, London: Heinemann pp. 130-162
Merton, R. K. (1939) Bureaucratic Structure and Personality, Soc. F. 18: 560-568
Ritzer, G. (1983) ‘The McDonaldisation of Society’, Journal of American Culture, 6:1, 100-107
Thompson, P and McHugh, D (2009), ‘Taylor, Weber and the Bureaucratisation of the Workplace’, in Work Organizations: A Critical Approach, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 28-41
Weber, M. –
LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION
5. Leadership, Followership and Charisma
Seminar reading
Milosevic, I. & Bass, A. E. (2014) ‘Revisiting Weber’s Charismatic Leadership: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future’, Journal of Management History, 20(2): 224-240.
Further readings
Adair-Toteff, C. (2005) Max Weber’s Charisma, Journal of Classical Sociology, 5(2): 189-204. Conger, J. A. (1993) ‘Max Weber’s Conceptualization of Charismatic Authority: It’s Influence on
Organizational Research’, The Leadership Quarterly, 3(1), 277-288
Hollander, E. P. (1992), ‘Leadership, Followership, Self and Others’, The Leadership Quarterly,
3(1), 43-54
Jermier, J. M. (1993), ‘Introduction – Charismatic Leadership: Neo-Weberian Perspectives’,
Leadership Quarterly, 4(3/4), pp. 217-233
Mommsen, W. J. (1974) ‘The theory of the “Three Pure Types of Legitimate Domination” and the Concept of Plebiscitary Democracy’, from The Age of Bureaucracy, ch. 4, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 72-94.
Weber, M. (1978 [1922]), ‘Charismatic Authority’ and ‘The Routinization of Charisma’, from Economy & Society, London: University of California Press, pp. 241-254
6. Participation and Workplace Democracy
Seminar reading
Cathcart, A. (2013), Directing Democracy: Competing Interests and Contested Terrain in the John Lewis Partnership’, Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 55(4), pp. 601-620
Further readings
Cheney, G. et al. (2014), ‘Worker Cooperatives as an Organizational Alternative: Challenges, achievements and promise in business governance and ownership’, Organization, 21(5), pp. 591- 603
Grugulis, I. (2017) ‘Employee Voice’, from A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Human Resource Management, London: Sage, ch.6
Harley et al (eds) (2005), Participation and Democracy at Work, Hampshire and NY: Palgrave
Johnson, P. (2006), ‘Whence Democracy? A review and critique of the conceptual dimensions and implication of the business case for organizational democracy’, Organization, 13(2), pp. 245- 274
Ramsey, H. (1977), ‘Cycles of Control: Worker Participation in Sociological and Historical Perspective’, Sociology, 11, p. 481-506
Rose, N. (1999 [1989]) ‘Democracy at Work’, in Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self, 2nd edn., London: Free Association Books, 81-94
Sievers, B (1996), ‘Participation as a Collusive Quarrel’, Ethical Perspectives, 3, 3, pp. 128-136
HUMAN RELATIONS AND MOTIVATION
8. Human Relations
Seminar reading
Thompson, P. & McHugh, D. (2002), ‘Managing the Human Factor’, from Work Organizations – A critical introduction, ch. 4
Further readings
Baritz, L. (1965) The Servants of Power, New York: Wiley.
Bruce, K. & Nyland, C. (2011), ‘Elton Mayo and the Deification of Human Relations’, Organization
Studies, 32(3) pp. 383-405
Gillespie, R. (1991/1993) Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Grey, C. (2005), ‘Human Relations Theory and People Management’, from A Very Short, Fairly
Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations, London: Sage, pp. 43-62 Hollway, W. (1991) ‘Human Factors’ and ‘Hawthorne and the Emergence of Human Relations’,
from Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour, London: Sage, 34-53, 68-87
O’Connor, E. (1999), ‘Minding the Workers: The Meaning of “Human” and “Human Relations” in
Elton Mayo’, Organization, 6(2), pp. 223-46
Rose, N. (1999 [1989]) ‘The Contented Worker’, in Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self, 2nd edn., London: Free Association Books, 61-75
9. Motivation and Job Satisfaction
Seminar reading
Hollway, W. (1991) ‘Motivating Employees: Human Relations Training and Job Satisfaction’ from Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour, London: Sage, 88-107
Further readings
Thompson, P. & McHugh, D. (2002), ‘Motivation: the drive for satisfaction’, from Work Organizations – A critical introduction, ch. 19.
Maslow, A. (1943), ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’, Psychological Review, 50, pp. 370-96
Miles, R. E. (1965), ‘Human Relations or Human Resources’, Harvard Business Review, July-
August, pp. 148-163.
Rose, N. (1999 [1989]) ‘The Contented Worker’, in Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self, 2nd edn., London: Free Association Books, 61-75.
CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 10. Culture Management
11. HRM – Rhetorics and Realities
Seminar Reading
Grugulis, I. et al (2000), ‘Cultural Control and the “Culture Manager”: Employment Practices in a Consultancy’, Work, Employment & Society, 14(1), pp. 97-116.
Further readings
Alvessson, M. & Willmott, H. (2002), ‘Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual’, Journal of Management Studies, 39, pp. 619-644.
Cederstrom, C. & Fleming, P. (2012), Dead Man Working, Alresford: Zero Books.
Fleming, P. & Sturdy, A. (2011), ‘“Being Yourself” in the Electronic Sweatshop: New forms of
normative control’, Human Relations, 64(2), pp. 177-200.
Gabriel, Y. (1995), ‘The Unmanaged Organization: Stories, fantasies and subjectivity’,
Organization Studies, 16(3): 477-501.
Grey, C. (2005), ‘Organizational Culture and Self-Management’, from A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Studying Organizations, London: Sage, pp. 65- 82.
Hollway, W. (1991) ‘Organisational Culture’ from Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour, London: Sage, 135-151.
Willmott, H. (1993), ‘Strength is Ignorance; Slavery is Freedom: Managing Culture in Modern Organizations’, Journal of Management Studies, 30(4): 515-552.
Set reading
Legge. K., 1991, ‘Human Resource Management: A Critical Analysis’, in J. Storey (ed.), New Perspectives on Human Resource Management, London: Routledge, 19-40.
Further readings
Grugulis, I. 2017. Human Resource Management, London: Sage.
Guest, D. 1991, ‘Human Resource Management: Its Implications for Industrial Relations and Trade Unions’, in J. Storey (ed.), New Perspectives on Human Resource Management, London: Routledge, 41-55.
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Keenoy, T. & Anthony, P., 1992, ‘HRM: Metaphor, Meaning and Morality’, in P. Blyton & P. Turnbull (eds.) Reassessing Human Resource Management, London: Sage, 233-255.
Thompson, P. 2011, ‘The trouble with HRM’, Human Resource Management Journal, 21(4): 355- 367.
Watson, T. 2004. ‘HRM and Critical Social Science Analysis’, Journal of Management Studies, 41(3): 447-467.
