Known primarily as the author of a method for studying work, Harold Garfinkel—and
ethnomethodological studies of work, or workplace studies—also offer an important …

Few people would deny that the nature of work and employment has changed over the last
four decades, not only in the United States but in many countries worldwide. Moreover, the …

This book, first published in 1958, concerns American industry and commerce, and is
devoted to what people do while they are working and reasons for their behaviour. This …

Work is fundamental to human society and modern organizations, and consequently has
been central to the thinking of major social theorists and social science disciplines. This …

Preface Introduction Organizations as Rational Systems I: Classic Theories of Bureaucracy
and Administration-Michael J. Handel A. Early Definitions of Organization and Management …

ERIC - ED024106 - Hawthorne Revisited: Management and the Worker, Its Critics, and
Developments in Human Relations in Industry., 1958 NotesFAQContact Us ERIC - Institute of …

The title of this focal article (unashamedly paraphrased from Edwin Starr's classic 1970
antiwar song) is only partly intended to be tongue in cheek; work is a strange thing with a …

A great deal of research has recently been completed on behavior and the organization of
work, most of which has viewed it from an ethnocentric perspective. In this work, Erez and …

It is common knowledge that social sciences intend to not only describe and classify
empirical facts but also to explain them with recourse to their underlying causes. Although …

The purpose of this chapter is to map out studies that provide rich and contextualized
understandings of work, workplaces and occupations through observation, participation …