Center for Organizational Research (COR)

Seminar

Snapshots of Compassion in Organizations

November 17th, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Alumni House

Jane E. Dutton
Professor of Psychology
Michigan Ross School of Business

Biography

Jane Dutton’s research is focused on how organizational conditions enable human thriving. In particular, she focuses on how the quality of connection between people at work affects individual and organizational flourishing. Her research has explored compassion and organizations, resilience and organizations, as well as energy and organizations. This research stream is part of a growing domain of expertise at the University of Michigan called Positive Organizational Scholarship Her past research has explored processes of organizational adaptation, focusing on how strategic issues are interpreted and managed in organizations, as well as issues of organizational identity and change.

Seminar

October 20 , 2:00 PM
McDonnell Douglas Auditorium

  Stephen R. Barley
      Professor of Management Science and Engineering

Stanford University

Biography

Stephen R. Barley is the Charles M. Pigott Professor of Management Science and Engineering, the Co- Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Organization at Stanford’s School of Engineering and the Co-Director of the Stanford/General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to coming to Stanford in 1994, Barley served for ten years on the faculty of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He was editor of the Administrative Science Quarterly from 1993 to 1997 and the founding editor of the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2002 to 2004.  He has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal, The Journal of Management Studies and Organization Science.  Barley has been the recipient the Academy of Management’s New Concept Award. He was a member of the Board of Senior Scholars of the National Center for the Educational Quality of the Workforce and co-chaired National Research Council and the National Academy of Science’s committee on the changing occupational structure in the United States. The committee’s report, The Changing Nature of Work, was published in 1999.  Barley has written extensively on the impact of new technologies on work, the organization of technical work and organizational culture.  He edited a volume on technical work entitled Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States published in 1997 by the Cornell University Press. In collaboration with Gideon Kunda of Tel Aviv University, Barley has recently published a book on contingent work among engineers and software developers, entitled Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in the Knowledge Economy, with the Princeton University Press.   Barley teaches courses on the management of R&D, the organizational implications of technological change, organizational behavior, social network analysis and ethnographic field methods. He has served as a consultant to organizations in a variety of industries including publishing, banking, computers, electronics and aerospace. 

COR Faculty Workshop

The Human Infrastructure of Cyberinfrastructure

June 9 , 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Social Ecology I Room 306

Paul Dourish
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
UCI

Discussants:
Christine Beckman
Roberta Lamb

Biography

Paul Dourish is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine, and Associate Director of the Irvine Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. His primary research interests are in the areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Human-Computer Interaction. He is especially interested in the foundational relationships between social scientific analysis and technological design. His book, “Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction” was published by MIT Press in 2001; it explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide an alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the embodied experience of interactive and computational systems.

Before coming to UCI, he was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory of Xerox PARC; he has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College, London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh.