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Talking About Organizations Podcast

Talking About Organizations

Talking About Organizations is a conversational podcast where we talk about one book, journal article or idea per episode and try to understand it, its purpose and its impact. By joining us as we collectively tackle classic readings on organization theory, management science, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, organizational learning, culture, climate, leadership, public administration, and so many more! Subscribe to our feed and begin Talking About Organizations as we take on great

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91: Constructive Conflict - Mary Parker Follett (Part 2)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/07/19

We conclude our discussion of Follett’s Dynamic Administration with a look at contemporary issues. The COVID-19 pandemic arguably made pragmatists of many of us as we navigated the challenges and shifted to different modes of working! But as the pandemic recedes to an uncertain new normal, now what? Can we sustain and grow ‘power-with’ and avoid falling back to old forms of competition and ‘power-over’?

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91: Constructive Conflict - Mary Parker Follett (Part 1)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/07/12

We return to the works of Mary Parker Follett and expand upon “The Law of the Situation” that we covered in Chapter 5. In this episode, we revisit Dynamic Administration with a look at the first five chapters as a whole – focusing on Chapter 1 (“Constuctive Conflict”), Chapter 3 (“Business as an Integrative Unity”), Chapter 4 (“Power”), and Chapter 5 (“How Must Business Management Develop in order to Possess the Essentials of a Profession”) that introduced Follett’s conception of professionalizing

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91: Constructive Conflict - Mary Parker Follett...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/07/12

We return to the works of Mary Parker Follett and explore her ideas on professionalizing business. Expanding on our examination of her “law of the situation” in Episode 5, we look at constructive conflict, organizational integration, and power. Together, these ideas represent a pragmatic approach to business where collaboration is the norm and channels competition toward the good of the organization rather than any one party within it.

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90: Organizations in Action -- James D. Thompson...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/06/21

As we conclude our discussion of James D. Thompson’s Organizations in Action, we focus on the final chapters where Thompson proposes his theory of administration whose basic function is proposed as co-alignment. This meant that organizations had to synthesize the needs and perspectives of individual members with the many streams of institutionalized action performed by the organization. What would become of the research agenda Thompson proposed nearly 55 years ago?

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90: Organizations in Action -- James D. Thompson...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/06/14

We examine James D. Thompson’s Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory from 1967 that established a new direction in organization studies. Beginning with a recapitulation of the theoretical work of the time, Thompson expanded the dominant rational model of organizing with the emerging ideas about human behaviour, complexity, and the relation between organizations and their environments. The result was a proposed theory of administration that remains relevant to this

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90: Organizations in Action -- James D. Thompson...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/06/14

We will examine James D. Thompson’s Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory from 1967 that proposed a new theory of administration based on a synthesis of rational and natural models of organization and ushered management into an open-systems paradigm. A class of administrative science that still informs organizational research today!

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89: Administrative Behavior in Public Sector --...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/05/24

In the conclusion of our examination of Herbert Kaufman’s “The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior,” published in 1960, we bring the results of the study to contemporary times and look at how public sector organizations have evolved in the past six decades. As Kaufman would explain in an afterword in the revised version of his book, even the Forest Service face difficulties as civil rights and other movements took hold in the time after the original study. What are the pressures facing

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89: Administrative Behavior in Public Sector --...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/05/17

This month’s episode examines a classic study in public administration, Herbert Kaufman’s “The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior,” published in 1960. The U.S. Forest Service was a widely distributed organization with its many Rangers individually assigned to manage large tracts of public land. It would have been easy for the Forest Service to lose control and fragment, but it did not. Kaufman’s study showed how and why the various techniques used by the Forest Service kept the

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89: Administrative Behavior in Public Sector --...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/05/17

This month’s release is on Herbert Kaufman’s study of forest rangers in the 1950s, looking at how the Forest Service worked to keep hundreds of Rangers scattered around the country unified under a common purpose and vision. The study is a classic of public administration and organizational behavior, showing various techniques that public sector organizations can use to hone a well-oiled bureaucracy!

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88: Social Defenses Against Anxiety -- Isabel Menzies...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/04/19

In the conclusion of our examination of Isabel Menzies’ “A Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence Against Anxiety,” we discuss more contemporary sources of anxiety and the various individual and collective methods used to defend against it. We generally found that what produces stress and how we cope with it may change, but the nature of anxiety and its natural presence in organizational life stays largely the same. So how can we apply Menzies’ findings to modern

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88: Social Defenses Against Anxiety -- Isabel Menzies...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/04/12

This month’s episode examines one of the classic studies from the Tavistock Institute, Isabel Menzies’ “A Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence Against Anxiety.” This famous study of how a teaching hospital developed odd and somewhat dysfunctional methods for protecting its nurses from anxiety and stress by effectively isolating nurses from the patients to prevent emotional attachment. Nursing students witnessing these methods in practice found them in violation of their

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88: Social Defenses Against Anxiety -- Isabel Menzies...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/04/12

This month return to one of the classic studies from the Tavistock Institute, Isabel Menzies’ famous study of how a teaching hospital developed odd and somewhat dysfunctional methods for protecting its nurses from anxiety and stress. Listen here for a quick summary of the episode.

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87: The Art of War (and Management?) -- Sun Tzu (Part 2)

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2022/03/15

In the conclusion of our examination of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, we look more closely at how the text and its central ideas have been adopted in popular literature covering everything from business competition to personal relationships! But how does one judge whether or not an adaptation is suitable or if it is merely leveraged an ancient name to validate some pre-conceived notions?

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87: The Art of War (and Management?) -- Sun Tzu (Part 1)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/03/08

This month’s episode examines war and how principles derived from it are presently applied to other organizational and management contexts. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is an ancient text that emerged from the Warring States period that lasted from the 5th through 3rd centuries B.C. and engulfed most of modern mainland China. It embraced the complexity of the environment of war, which therefore has allowed it to be adapted for navigating other forms of complexity such as business competition. We examine

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87: The Art of War (and Management?) -- Sun Tzu...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/03/08

Now released! In our History & Culture series, we will examine Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. War is often used as a metaphor for other forms of competition, such as business and there are plenty of books in popular literature that appropriate Sun Tzu’s ideas for other purposes. But what does the text itself say and what insights in the nature and competition can we glean?

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What's Coming for the Podcast in 2022!

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/02/21

We are expanding our program and website! Opportunities to help us make TAOP a go-to resource for org. theory and management science! Find out here what we will be doing, and you might win a copy of March & Simon's Organizations! The survey is available here and is open until 13 March 2022: https://forms.gle/GXSAp294rAYNpUhW8

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86: Networks and Network Theory -- Mark Granovetter...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/02/15

We conclude our examination of Granovetter’s 1973 article, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” by looking at how social networking has grown and changed in the last fifty years. Considering the emergence of information technologies and the different means available to connect with each other, along with the disruptive character of the pandemic, we discuss what has been learned over time and what it means going forward. Are we connecting better? If not, what could we be doing differently?

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86: Networks and Network Theory -- Mark Granovetter...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/02/08

Granovetter’s 1973 article, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” introduced whole new ways of thinking about seemingly simple and straightforward topics and changed the direction of social research. He showed how “weak” ties, occasional connections between individuals among different networks, were powerful means for providing opportunities and new ideas not otherwise available. He also charted a way for researchers to connect micro-level interactions with macro-level patterns. The article was very

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86: Networks and Network Theory -- Mark Granovetter...

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/02/08

This is a teaser for Episode 86, where we will examine Mark Granovetter’s “The Strength of Weak Ties” from 1973 that significantly changed the way researchers looked at interpersonal networks. How we connect with one other and for what purposes has taken on new meaning in the last few years. We will therefore give this classic article a fresh look and tackle the questions it raised as they apply to today.

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85: Carnegie-Mellon Series #6 -- Organizations (Part 2)

Talking About Organizations Podcast ·

2022/01/18

We conclude our discussion of March and Simon’s Organizations with a look to the present day to see how well the book’s ideas have withstood the test of time. Are they helpful for explaining “novel” phenomena or ways of organizing? Have today’s qualitative methods made it feasible for researchers to study the more untestable propositions? How can one use the book to analyze practical problems of organizations?

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