The 9 best institutional work for 2018
Finding the best institutional work suitable for your needs isnt easy. With hundreds of choices can distract you. Knowing whats bad and whats good can be something of a minefield. In this article, weve done the hard work for you.
1. Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations
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The 'institutional' approach to organizational research has shown how enduring features of social life - such as marriage and bureaucracy - act as mechanisms of social control. Such approaches have traditionally focused attention on the relationships between organizations and the fields in which they operate, providing strong accounts of the processes through which institutions govern action. In contrast, the study of institutional work reorients these traditional concerns, shifting the focus to understanding how action affects institutions. This book sets a research agenda within the field of institutional work by analyzing the ways in which individuals, groups, and organizations work to create, maintain, and disrupt the institutions that structure their lives. Through a series of essays and case studies, it explores the conceptual core of institutional work, identifies institutional work strategies, provides exemplars for future empirical research, and embeds the concept within broader sociological debates and ideas.2. Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)
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Talk at Work is a major collection of studies of language and interaction in a wide variety of institutional and workplace settings, including doctor-patient consultations, legal hearings, mass media, job interviews, visits by health visitors, psychiatric interviews, and calls to emergency services. A theoretical overview of the distinctive contribution made by conversation analysis to our understanding of talk in institutional contexts is followed by reports of the contributors' original empirical research.3. Under New Public Management: Institutional Ethnographies of Changing Front-Line Work
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The institutional ethnographies collected in Under New Public Management explore how new managerial governance practices coordinate the work of people doing front-line work in public sectors such as health, education, social services, and international development, and people management in the private sector.
In these fields, organizations have increasingly adopted private-sector management techniques, such as standardized and quantitative measures of performance and an obsession with cost reductions and efficiency. These practices of new public management are changing the ways in which front-line workers engage with their clients, students, or patients.
Using research drawn from Canada, the United States, Australia, and Denmark, the contributors expose how standardized managerial requirements are created and applied, and how they affect the practicalities of working with people whose lives and experiences are complex and unique.
4. Making Institutional Repositories Work (Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences)
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Quickly following what many expected to be a wholesale revolution in library practices, institutional repositories encountered unforeseen problems and a surprising lack of impact. Clunky or cumbersome interfaces, lack of perceived value and use by scholars, fear of copyright infringement, and the like tended to dampen excitement and adoption.This collection of essays, arranged in five thematic sections, is intended to take the pulse of institutional repositoriesto see how they have matured and what can be expected from them, as well as introduce what may be the future role of the institutional repository.Making Institutional Repositories Work takes novices as well as seasoned practitioners through the practical and conceptual steps necessary to develop a functioning institutional repository, customized to the needs and culture of the home institution. The first section covers all aspects of system platforms, including hosted and open-source options, big data capabilities and integration, and issues related to discoverability. The second section addresses policy issues, from the basics to open-source and deposit mandates. The third section focuses on recruiting and even creating content. Authors in this section will address the ways that different disciplines tend to have different motivations for deposit, as well as the various ways that institutional repositories can serve as publishing platforms. The fourth section covers assessment and success measures for all involvedlibrarians, deans, and administrators. The theory and practice of traditional metrics, alt metrics, and peer review receive chapter-length treatment. The fifth section provides case studies that include a boots-on-the-ground perspective of issues raised in the first four sections. By noting trends and potentialities, this final section, authored by Executive Director of SPARC Heather Joseph, makes future predictions and helps managers position institutional repositories to be responsive change and even shape the evolution of scholarly communication.5. Making Hybrids Work: An Institutional Framework for Blending Online and Face-to-Face Instruction in Higher Education
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The hybrid instructional mode, which combines online and face-to-face learning in a single course, has, according to the National Education Association, the potential to maximize student learning in the twenty-first century. And interest in hybrids is growing--by administrators, by faculty, and by students. But a truly effective hybrid curriculum works only when colleges and universities invest in broad, institutional planning and decision making, as well as strong professional development opportunities for faculty.Making Hybrids Work provides a resource for institutions of higher education to grow and sustain quality hybrid curricula, outlining an institutional framework by focusing on defining and advertising hybrids; developing, supporting, and assessing hybrid programs; and training faculty. To examine the reality rather than the hype of a hybrid curriculum, authors Joanna N. Paull and Jason Allen Snart look at several existing hybrid courses in a variety of disciplines, as well as explore the possibilities and limitations of teaching with technology. Although there is no one easy path to instituting a hybrid curriculum, the authors argue that the hybrid model might well offer a potential "best of both worlds" in its blending of online and face-to-face instruction, but only with a strong foundation of institutional planning and professional support in place.
6. Assessing Faculty Work: Enhancing Individual and Institutional Performance
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A practical resource for fostering and assessing faculty achievement in all aspects of their work: teaching, research, and service. Shows that the assessment process can and must be tied to faculty development, and explains how collegial activity and continuous improvement are key to strong performance.7. Polycentric Games and Institutions: Readings from the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (Institutional Analysis)
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8. How Does Social Science Work?: Reflections on Practice (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)
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The culmination of a lifetime spent in a variety of fields - sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, and philosophy of science - -How Does Social Science Work? takes an innovative, sometimes iconoclastic look at social scientists at work in many disciplines. It describes how they investigate and the kinds of truth they produce, illuminating the weaknesses and dangers inherent in their research.
At once an analysis, a critique, and a synthesis, this major study begins by surveying philosophical approaches to hermeneutics, to examine the question of how social science ought to work. It illustrates many of its arguments with untraditional examples, such as the reception of the work of the political biographer Robert Caro to show the hermeneutical problems of ethnographers. The major part of the book surveys sociological, political, and psychological studies of social science to get a rounded picture of how social science works,
Paul Diesling warns that social science exists between two opposite kinds of degeneration, a value-free professionalism that lives only for publications that show off the latest techniques, and a deep social concern that uses science for propaganda. He argues for greater self-awareness and humility among social scientists, although he notes that some social scientists . . . will angrily reject the thought that their personality affects their research in any way.
This profound and sometimes witty book will appeal to students and practitioners in the social sciences who are ready to take a fresh look at their field. An extensive bibliography provides a wealth of references across an array of social science disciplines.
9. Peter Rose: Selected Works (Institutional Use)
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These films and videos concern themselves with multi-dimensional explorations of time and space, with occulting our usual modes of perception and constructing other kinds of vision using the tools of cinema. They explore new forms of motion, the raptures of vision, the American landscape, the machineries of the sky, the corridors of the underground, and the powers of darkness. In no particular order. In contrast to "VOX", they lack almost all traces of language and appeal to the formal, the specular, and the kinetic.The man who could not see far enough (1981, 33 min.) Analogies: studies in the movement of time (1977, 14 min.) Incantation (1970, 8 min.) The Geosophist's Tears (2002, 8 min.) Rotary Almanac (2000, 4 min.) Pneumenon (2003, 5 min.) Odysseus in Ithaca (2006, 5 min.) Omen (2001, 11 min.)
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