Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Organizational Science and Health Care (January 21, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90175 90175-21668509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Research on topics of organizational science in health care settings for a variety of reasons has proliferated in recent years across both organization- and health-focused disciplines. Yet, questions abound about what we as organizational scholars know, what we have learned, and whether the research we are conducting is relevant. The first goal of this session is to take stock of this important domain by drawing together findings from two recent works: a critical history and analysis of the patient safety movement and an analysis of almost 700 articles published over the past decade in leading organizational science (OS) and health care (HC) journals. A second goal is to provide insight into promising avenues that could ultimately advance organizational science and health care with future research that is both rigorous and relevant.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:41:02 -0500 2022-01-21T13:30:00-05:00 2022-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Organizational Science and Health Care (January 21, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90175 90175-21668766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 21, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Research on topics of organizational science in health care settings for a variety of reasons has proliferated in recent years across both organization- and health-focused disciplines. Yet, questions abound about what we as organizational scholars know, what we have learned, and whether the research we are conducting is relevant. The first goal of this session is to take stock of this important domain by drawing together findings from two recent works: a critical history and analysis of the patient safety movement and an analysis of almost 700 articles published over the past decade in leading organizational science (OS) and health care (HC) journals. A second goal is to provide insight into promising avenues that could ultimately advance organizational science and health care with future research that is both rigorous and relevant.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 21 Dec 2021 22:41:02 -0500 2022-01-21T13:30:00-05:00 2022-01-21T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion
Things Are Not What They Seem: The Origins & Evolution of Intragroup Conflict (February 18, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91806 91806-21690201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Teams scholars have historically conceptualized and measured intragroup conflict at the team level. But emerging evidence suggests that perceptions of intragroup conflict are often not uniform, shared, or static. These findings suggest important questions about the microfoundations of intragroup conflict: Where does conflict within teams originate? And how does it evolve over time? We address these and other questions in three abductive studies. We consider four origination points—an individual, dyad, subgroup, or team—and three evolutionary trajectories—conflict continuity, contagion, and concentration. Study 1, a qualitative study of narrative accounts, and Study 2, a longitudinal social networks study of student teams, reveal that fewer than 30 percent of teams experience team-level conflict. Instead, conflict more commonly originates and persists at individual, dyadic, or subgroup levels. Study 2 further demonstrates that traditional psychometric intragroup conflict scales mask the existence of these various origins and trajectories of conflict. Study 3, a field study of manufacturing teams, reveals that individual and dyadic task conflict origins positively predict team performance, whereas traditional intragroup task conflict measures negatively predict team performance. The results raise serious concerns about current methods and theory in the team conflict literature and suggest that researchers must go beyond team-level conceptualizations of conflict.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:42:44 -0500 2022-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 2022-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
The Weakness of Strong Expectations: Diffusion and the Self-Defeating Prophecy (March 18, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92750 92750-21695192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

New innovations, practices, and behaviors often spread through diffusion processes in which earlier adopters influence later adopters. However, research on diffusion has a well-documented success bias — cases in which a new innovation successfully spreads through a population or organizational field garner more attention and theorizing than the countless other cases in which similar innovations fail to take off. The same theories and models that account for successful diffusion often become cumbersome when tasked with explaining failed diffusion, an outcome that is at least equally common. In this talk, I will present results from a theoretically-informed computational model of organizational behavior to argue that failed diffusion need not be more mysterious than successful diffusion. In fact, both outcomes may reflect the same underlying mechanisms rooted in how actors form social expectations for how others will behave. Organizations interpret their peers’ decisions to adopt or reject a new innovation in light of their own socially formed expectations, with unsurprising decisions having less impact than conspicuous surprises. Consequently, successive adoptions of a new innovation reinforce its spread while also paradoxically making its continued diffusion more susceptible to disruptions that can make a previously growing “bandwagon” suddenly and unexpectedly collapse. These dynamics make the spread of new innovations noisy and unpredictable because the same innovation facing identical initial conditions can diffuse widely in some cases but fail to launch in others. While we often think of institutionalized expectations as making the social world more predictable, the opposite also holds—widely-believed prophecies can be self-defeating as well as self-fulfilling.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Feb 2022 09:19:48 -0500 2022-03-18T13:30:00-04:00 2022-03-18T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Corporate Activism and Organizational Authenticity (March 25, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91809 91809-21683060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Corporate activism is when a firm takes a public stance on a social or political issue. Although the public increasingly expects corporations to engage in activism, their support varies across individual corporate activist campaigns. While social movement theories predict that the public will support corporate activism in general, organizational authenticity theory suggests that corporate activism may backfire if a firm lacks type or moral authenticity. Using semi-structured interviews with a variety of different stakeholders, a national survey on 525 corporate Black Lives Matter statements, and two pre-registered experiments, we find that the public generally supports corporate activism, but that a firm’s type and moral authenticity can substitute for one another in shaping the public’s attitudes (support for and intention to join) and behaviors (donation and writing letters of support). We contribute to social movement theory by bringing in organizational theories of authenticity to help us explain when and why corporate activism sometimes fails to mobilize support, and we extend research on organizational authenticity by showing an interaction between type and moral authenticity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:08:51 -0500 2022-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 2022-03-25T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
The Unfulfilled Promise of Meritocracy in Organizations (April 1, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93206 93206-21701533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

In my research, I focus on the organizational aspects of work and employment, studying how management practices and managers influence key employment outcomes for employees and organizations over time. I formulate and answer my research questions in a variety of empirical settings, making use of company field studies and experimental research methodologies. Given the widely popular goals of promoting meritocracy and creating opportunities inside organizations, for a number of years now, I have investigated the role that merit, performance evaluations, and other talent-management practices play in shaping employees’ careers in today’s workplace. In my presentation, I will discuss the key findings of some of my projects on achieving meritocracy and excellence in organizations. In so doing, I will highlight the practical insights of my research into the areas of employment, organizations, and workplace inequality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:51:14 -0500 2022-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 2022-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
OS @ Festifall (September 1, 2022 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97366 97366-21794475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 1, 2022 2:30pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Learn more about our program, meet current students, and pick up some cool swag on September 1st in the Diag. Table A3

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Fair / Festival Wed, 24 Aug 2022 15:41:16 -0400 2022-09-01T14:30:00-04:00 2022-09-01T17:00:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus Organizational Studies Program (OS) Fair / Festival
Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy (September 23, 2022 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97464 97464-21794612@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 23, 2022 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Between the 1960s and the 1980s, an “economic style of reasoning”—grounded in the discipline of economics but traveling well beyond it—became influential in Washington, and was institutionalized through legal and organizational changes. This new way of thinking had consequences for what policy options were considered and how policy decisions were made, and was particularly constraining for the left wing of the Democratic Party. Drawing from a new book that looks at how such changes played out across the domains of social policy, market governance, and social regulation, this talk will focus on what this transformation looked like in the realm of antitrust policy. Here, a domain that was once conceived of as balancing competing purposes, including promoting competition, limiting corporate power, and protecting small business, was rethought as focused on a single goal: protecting consumer welfare, understood as allocative efficiency. As this new approach was built into legal frameworks and decision-making processes in federal agencies, it narrowed the scope of legitimate debate in ways that persist to the present—with implications for our ability to address new forms of corporate power.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Sep 2022 08:59:57 -0400 2022-09-23T13:30:00-04:00 2022-09-23T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Popp Berman
OS Info Night (November 3, 2022 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/99590 99590-21798373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 3, 2022 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Organizational Studies is an interdisciplinary major in the liberal arts. Drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology, the major examines the influence of various factors on individuals and organizations.

Come find out about the Organizational Studies major!

You’ll hear from the Program Director, Concentration Advisor, Prospective Student Advisor, and current OS students. Topics covered include curriculum, admissions, and career/graduate study options.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 30 Sep 2022 09:32:51 -0400 2022-11-03T17:30:00-04:00 2022-11-03T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Organizational Studies Program (OS) Reception / Open House OS Info Night