Sociology of Organizations Syllabus

Abstract

This course focuses on the structure and essential features of social groups, the value of social networks for accessing organizations and for social mobility, gender dynamics, power hierarchies, the “vanishing” hierarchical organization and its implications for ongoing jobs, and the growth of “all edge adhocracies” and their flexible social...

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Subject Area(s):

Organizations, Formal and Complex, Small Groups, Social Networks, Social Organization

Resource Type(s):

Syllabus

Class Level(s):

College 300

Class Size(s):

Medium

Usage Notes

USAGE NOTES FOR SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONS

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3. The learning goals for the course are clearly stated and assignments for assessing each of the student learning goals are noted.
   
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Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. • Become familiar with the organization, social structure, and mobility process within small groups. SLO #1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, assessed through weekly discussions, collaborative group projects, and response/reflection papers.
2. • Understand the value of social networks in accessing jobs in organizations. SLO #1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, assessed through weekly discussion, collaborative group projects, and response/reflection papers.
3. • Understand gender stratification in formal organizations. SLO #1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, assessed in weekly discussion, collaborative group projects, and response/reflection papers.
4. • Become familiar with the social structure in managerial work. SLO #1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, assessed through weekly discussion, collaborative group projects, and response/reflection papers.
5. • Understand the structural forces reshaping bureaucratic hierarchical corporations, the growth of market or flexible organizational forms (professional contracting and “all-edge adhocracies” in the reading), the resulting growth of contingent and precarious work in labor markets, and the increased value of professional social networks in this...
6. • Work collaboratively to strengthen teamwork skills in a series of small group projects. SLO #1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, assessed through collaborative group projects.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Goal assessment methods are listed with each learning objective