Group B Seminar Presentation

A203 - People, Change and Management Seminar Group B Group Member Name 1

Michelle Loon Joyz Sim

2

Shandy Poh Caroline Lim

3

Sheena Poh Tan Xiaolian

4

Karin Goh Joyce Liu

5

Brendon Chen Kang Kai

6

Chew Yang Daniel Koo

7

Yin Qunyao Jann Teo

8

Jacqueline Tan Zhang Ruixian

9

Peter Ng Daniel Lin

10

Joshua Chen Wilson Lim

11

Tan Hwee Cheng See Yong Ren

12

Lee Wei Zhi Roy Teh

A203 - People, Change and Management Seminar Group B SeminarTopic 1

Taylorism and Fordism

Reading

Exam QnPresenters

Taylor, P and Bain, P (1999),

5, 7

"An assembly line in the head" Work and employee relations in a call centre

Shandy Poh Caroline Lim

Industrial Relations Jounal, 30, 2, 101 2

Weber and Bureaucracy Thompson and Mchugh (2002) Taylor, Weber and the Bureaucratisation of the Workplace

8, 9 , 6

Daniel Lin Peter Ng

Ritzer, G "McDonaldization and its Precusors

10, 11

Sheena Poh Tan Xiaolian

Gabriel, Y (2005) Glass cages and glass palaces : images of organization

12, 13

in image conscious times, Organization, 12, 1, 9-27 3

Human Relations

Jacqueline Tan Zhang Ruixian

Roberts, J (1984) The Moral Character of Management Practice,

14, 15

Journal of management studies, 21, 3, 287

Karin Goh Joyce Liu

Rose, M (1988) "Reassessing Human Relations" (102-112)

16, 17

Joshua Chen Wilson Lim

4

Organization Culture

Smircich, L (1983) Concepts of Culture and Organizational

18, Analysis in Administrative Science Quarterly, 28, 3, 339-358

19

Yin Qunyao Jann Teo

Van-Maanen, J (1991)

21 Michelle Loon "The Simile Factory: Work at Disneyland, in Frost, P et al20, (eds) Reframing Organizational Culture, Newbury Park, Sage 5

Labour Process Theory

Braverman, H (1974)

Joyz Sim

22, 23

Labor and Monopoly Captital, Intoduction and Chapter 1 Knights and Willmott, (1990)

Kang Kai

24, 25

Labour Process Theory, Introductory chapter 6

Brendon Chen

Chew Yang Daniel Koo

Critical Management Studies Parker, M (2002) Against Management, Chapter 6, 115-133

1, 2

Lee Wei Zhi Roy Teh

Contu, A. Grey, C. Ortenblad, A. (2003) Against Learning, Human Relations, 56, 8, 931-54

3, 4

Tan Hwee Cheng See Yong Ren

7

Diversity Organizations

Cooke, B (2003) The denial of Slavery in Management Studies

All

Journal of Management Studies, 40, 8, 1895-1918 Sturdy, A J and Gabriel, Y (2000) "Missionaries, Mercenaries or Car Salesman ?

All

MBA teaching in Malaysia", journal of Management Studies, Vol 37, No 7, pp 979-1002 8

Rethinking Management Student bring examples of current issues in management and society and subject them to critical analysis and investigation

All

Approaching the Classes ● Two Readings/Presentations in each class ● Describe; − Main points of Reading − Relevance to Topic − Strengths − Weakness ● Seminar Leader acts as Facilitator for debate