Sociology 310

Managers, Work, and Organizations

Current (or most recent) syllabus

Lecture notes

• Before management: family capitalism and workers control
• The managerial revolution
• Lean and mean or fat and mean?
• Marx and managers
• Durkheim and managers
• Weber and managers
• Capital: human, social, and cultural
• Pathways to top management
• Interpersonal influence and ingratiation
• Essentialism
• Women in management
  • 12 year trends on women in management
• Race in management
• Bamboo ceiling
• Interviewing hints
• Satisfaction and motivation
• Turning workers' time into profit
• Adapting to the organizational environment
• Meeting environmental expectations
• Participative management
• Summary themes

Papers: samples of successful papers from past semesters, all with a grade A- or better.  (Note that these have not been edited or rewritten.)

• Paper 1
  • example 1
  • example 2
• Paper 2
  • example 1
• Paper 3
  • example 1
  • example 2

Movie questions

• Barbarians at the Gate

Review

• Concept list at mid-term
• Concept list at final