• Individual written essay • 2000 words word limit • bibliography DOES count as part of word count • 1.5 line spacing • minimum 12 point font • Times New Roman font Questions: 1) Does inequality at work exist, and can it be managed away? Cassell, C. (1996) ‘A fatal attraction? Strategic HRM and the business case for women’s progression at work,’ Personnel Review 25: 5, pp. 51-66. Edwards, P. and Wajcman, J. (2005) The Politics of Working Life. Oxford: Oxford. Macionis, J and Plummer, K. (2011) Sociology: A Global Introduction. London: Prentice Hall Noon, M. and Blyton, P. (2006) The Realities of Work. London: Palgrave. Wilson, E. M and Iles, P. A. (1999) ‘Managing diversity,’ The International Journal of Public Sector Management 12: 1, pp. 27-48. 2) With reference to real examples, consider the advantages and disadvantages of using performance targets in the management of organisations. Carter, N., Klein R. and Day, P. (1992) How Organisations Measure Success. London: Routledge. Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (HCC) (2009) Investigation into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. [Available online] Edwards, P. and Wajcman, J. (2005) The Politics of Working Life. Oxford: Oxford. Greiling, D. (2006) ‘Performance measurement: a remedy for increasing the efficiency of public services?’ International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management 55: 6, pp. 448-465. Hood, C. (2006) ‘Gaming in Targetworld: The Targets Approach to Managing British Public Services,’ Public Administration Review July/August 2006, pp. 515 – 521. Lynch, J. (2004) ‘Foucault on Targets,’ Journal of Health Organization and Management 18:2, pp. 128-135. Noon, M. and Blyton, P. (2006) The Realities of Work. London: Palgrave. Ordonez, L. D., M. E. Schweitzer, A. D. Galinsky and M. H. Bazerman (2009) ‘Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Overprescribing Goal Setting,’ Academy of Management Perspectives Feb 2009, pp. 6 – 16. [Also available as a working paper] Townley, B., J. Cooper and L. Oakes (2003) ‘Performance Measures and the Rationalization of Organizations,’ Organization Studies 24: 7, pp. 1045-1071. 3) Consider the causes of the recent global economic crisis; are they primarily financial, or social in nature? Blackburn, R. (2008) ‘The Subprime Crisis,’ New Left Review, 50, 63-106. Harvey, D. (2010a) Crises of Capitalism. RSA Animate, available at: youtube/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0. Johnson, S. (2009) ‘The Quiet Coup,’ The Atlantic. May. URL: theatlantic/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/307364/ Kotz, D. M. (2009) ‘The Financial and Economic Crisis of 2008: A Systemic Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism,’ Review of Radical Political Economics 41(3), 305-317. Lanchester, J. (2010) Whoops! London: Penguin. Mason, P. (2009) Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed. London:Verso. Taibbi, M. (2013b) ‘The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis,’ Rolling Stone, 19 June 2013. 4) Do we make society or does society make us? Bauman, Z and Tim May (2001) Thinking Sociologically. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Berger, J. (1963) An Invitation to Sociology. New York: Anchor (Doubleday Books). Bruce, S. (2000) Sociology: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks Giddens, A. (2010) ‘The Scope of Sociology’ in Sociology: Introductory Readings eds. A Giddens and P Sutton. Giddens, A. (1986) Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education. Macionis, J and Plummer, K. (2011) Sociology: A Global Introduction. London: Prentice Hall Walsh, D. (1998) ‘Structure/Agency’ in Jenks, C. (ed.) Core Sociological Dichotomies (available on blackboard) Wright-Mills, C (1961) The Sociological Imagination. New York: Grove Press 5) ‘We live in an atmosphere of high anxiety, an anomic world of constant organizational restructuring, short term contracts, and uncertainty’ (Granter 2009: 176): How did it come to this? Edwards, P. and Wajcman, J. (2005) The Politics of Working Life. Oxford: Oxford. Granter, E. (2009) Critical Social Theory and the End of Work. Farnham: Ashgate Granter, E. (2008) ‘A dream of ease: Situating the future of work and leisure’, Futures 40 (9) pp. 803-811. Granter, E. (2009) ‘Acceptable in the 1980’s: Sociology and the End of Work’, Sociology 43 (5) pp. 1014-1018. Granter, E. (2011) ‘When Work Dies: Detroit’s Post Industrial Decline’: citiesmcr.wordpress/2011/06/13/when-work-dies-detroits-post-industrial-decline/ Macionis, J. and Plummer, K. (2011) Sociology: A Global Introduction. London: Prentice Hall. McCann, L. Morris, J. and Hassard, J. (2008) ‘Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management.’ Journal of Management Studies 45: 2, pp. 343-371. McCann, L. Morris, J. and Hassard, J. (2011) Managing in the Modern Corporation: The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Noon, M. and Blyton, P. (2006) The Realities of Work. London: Palgrave. 6) We are what we buy: Discuss. Bowlby, R. (2000) Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping. London: Faber and Faber. Backes, N. (1997) ‘Reading the Shopping Mall City,’ The Journal of Popular Culture 31: 3, pp. 1–17 Du Gay, P. (1996) Consumption and identity at work. London: Sage. Featherstone, M. (1991) Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. London: Sage. Granter, E. (2009) Critical Social Theory and the End of Work. Farnham: Ashgate [Chapter 9] Gabriel, Y. and Lang, T. (2008) ‘New Faces and New Masks of Todays Consumer,’ Journal of Consumer Culture 8, pp. 321-340. Klein, N. (2001) No Logo. Flamingo. Lindquist, U. (2009) ‘The Cultural Archive of the Ikea Store’, Space and Culture 12: 1, pp. 43-62. Manzo, J. (2010) ‘Social Control and the Management of “Personal” Space in Shopping Malls,’ Space and Culture 8: 1, pp. 83-97. Miller, D. (1998) A Theory of Shopping. Cambridge: Polity Press. Reith, G. (2004) ‘Consumption and its discontents: addiction, identity and the problems of freedom,’ The British Journal of Sociology 55: 2, pp. 283-300. Trentmann, F. (2006) (ed.) The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World, pp. 1–27. Oxford and New York: Berg Publisher. Warde, A. (1994) ‘Consumption, identity-formation and uncertainty’, Sociology, 28: 4, pp. 877-898. 7) Are organisations like families? Are families like organisations? Beutell, N. J. (1985), “Sources of conflict between work and family roles”, Academy of Management Review, 10(1): 76-88. Burke, R. J, (2001), ‘Workaholism in organizations: The role of organizational values,’ Personnel Review 30: 5/6, pp. 637-645. Casey, C. (1999), ‘“Come Join our Family”: Discipline and Integration in Corporate Organizational Culture,’ Human Relations 52: 1, pp. 155-178. Edwards, P. and Wajcman, J. (2005) The Politics of Working Life. Oxford: Oxford. Gomez-Mehia, L. R., Nunez-Nickel, M. and Gutierrez, I. (2001) ‘The role of family ties in the agency contracts,’ Academy of Management Journal 44: 1, pp. 81-95.Greenhaus, J. H. and Noon, M. and Blyton, P. (2006) The Realities of Work. London: Palgrave. Turner, B. (2005) ‘The Sociology of the Family’ in Calhoun, C. et al (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Sociology. London: Sage. Sturges, J. and Guest, D. (2004) ‘Working to live or living to work? Work/life balance early in the career,’ Human Resource Management Journal, 14: 4, pp. 5-20.
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