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103: Bringing Work Back In -- Barley & Kunda (Part 1)
103: Bringing Work Back In -- Barley & Kunda (Part 1)
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
In their 2001 Organization Science article “Bringing Work Back In,” Steven Barley and Gideon Kunda lamented how the study of work, its organization, and its performance shifted after the 1950s. Work was the center of attention among the classic era of organization studies beginning with Frederic Taylor, but afterward, the focus shifted to post-bureaucratic concepts such as boundaryless organizations and networks. Barley and Kunda argues that these new ideas are not grounded in rigorous studies of how people perform work in such new organizations.
Released:
Jul 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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