Chapter 14

Foucault Resources

http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-fouc.htm

This is an accessible and fun site that is easy to navigate, and will introduce you to Foucault’s main ideas about power and knowledge. It is part of the www.theory.org website, and as such the text has been brightened up by Foucault action figures, trading cards and an illustrated guide to Paris!

Center for Gender in Organizations

http://my.simmons.edu/libraries/collections/career/women_and_careers/index.shtml

Based at the Simmons School of Management in Boston, this group of researchers have presented lots of important information about the impact of gender on management. You can find out about current projects and read articles about a wide range of issues affecting women in the workplace.

Scientific Management

http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/taylor/sciman

On this site, Eric Eldred from McMaster University in Canada has scanned in the original text of Taylor’s (1911) 'Principles of Scientific Management'. It is worth reading this if you are interested in making a detailed study of this particular technique of organization.

Human Resources Internet Guide

http://www.hr-guide.com/

A good way of getting yourself acquainted with the key ideas and strategies used in Human Resource Management. This site contains information, advice and links to many other online resources to help people who work in HR. You may want to think critically about the techniques referred to here, remembering the ideas discussed in the chapter.

Centre for the Sociology of Organizations

http://www.cso.edu/home.asp?langue=en&

This is a research institute dedicated to the sociological study of organizations. It is based in Paris, and aims to develop communication between researchers in various countries who are interested in this area of study. A good site to visit if you want to make contacts in this field – but be prepared to find some of the information written in French.

Goffman’s total institutions

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7899529&dopt=Abstract

This is an interesting article written by R.M. Weinstein for the National Library of Medicine and National Institute of Health in the USA. It is a critical discussion of whether, and to what extent, Goffman’s idea of the total institution remains relevant today, in the context of psychiatric care. The author argues that Goffman’s model is quite outdated, but that it remains a powerful and memorable account for social scientists.

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