My recollection is that sometime about 1963/64, Time Magazine ran a
feature about all the greats: Argyris, Bennis, Herzberg, etc.
That might be interesting to have your students look at.
Also this link to a talk I gave at the 1998 SIOP Conference on five
generations of I/O Psychologists speak out:
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~evans/fldr/sioptalk.htm
Best
M
Martin G. Evans
Professor Emeritus
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
URL:
www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~evans
,,, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American People
upon which this nation relies. It is ... the selflessness of workers who
would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job.
Barack H. Obama
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Blanco, R Ivan wrote:
> Kevin,
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>
> You have received great suggestions. I have a couple more for your
> list. In one of my PhD courses some time ago we studied Chester I
> Barnard’s “The Functions of the Executive” (First Published in 1938 –
> Harvard). This is a great book. But I believe that the book that may a
> wonderful fit with what you are trying to do might be “The Great
> Writings in Management and Organizational Behavior,” by Louis E. Boone
> and Donald D. Bowen. It was published by Random House. Your students
> would the great experience of reading the very writings of those who set
> the foundations of these two areas today. This book gives the writings
> by most the names that have been suggested and then some. Basically you
> will find original work by Argyris, Barnard, Drucker, Fayol, Fiedler,
> Follet, Hackman, Herzberg, House, Robert Janosn, Steven Kerr, Koontz,
> Latham, Lawler, III, Likert, Locke, Lorsch, March, Maslow, Mayo,
> McClelland, McGregor, Mintzberg, Terence R. Mitchell, Oldham, Lyman W.
> Porter, Kenneth Purdy, Schein, Warren H. Schmidt, Oliver Sheldon, Simon,
> Tannenbaum, Taylor, Vroom, and Weber.
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> Hope it helps!
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> Thanks,
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> Ivan
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> *From:* Organizational Behavior Division Listserv
> [mailto:
OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] *On Behalf Of *Neal Ashkanasy
> *Sent:* Friday, January 29, 2010 7:02 PM
> *To:*
OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [OB-LIST] Narrative history of OB: William F. Whyte,
> Lawrence, Lorsch ...
>
>
>
> Hi Kevin
>
>
>
> Intriguing question. I did a search for “organizational behavior” in
> SSCI. The earliest usage of the term is a series of articles in
> Educational and Psychological Measurement (1955) by High, Goldberg, and
> Comrey that refer to “Factored dimensions of organizational-behavior”.
> Possibly more interesting is a 1958 ASQ piece by political scientist
> Robert V. Presthus (1917-2003) titled “Toward a theory of organizational
> behavior”.
>
>
>
> Presthus’s ASQ articles is referred to by van Heller Gilmer (1960) in an
> early /Annual Review of Psychology/ piece. van Heller Gilmer also notes
> that “March & Simon (1958), in their book /Organizations, /review what
> has been written on organizational behavior,” and later, “Lawrence
> (1958) … draws heavily for concepts and research methods on the numerous
> earlier studies in the field of organizational behavior.”
>
>
>
> References
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>
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> Comrey, A. L., High, W. S., & Goldberg, L. L. (1955). Factored
> dimensions of organizational behavior I. Field service workers.
> /Educational and Psychological Measurement, 15/, 225-235.
>
>
>
> High, W. S., Goldberg, L. L., & Comrey, A. L. (1955). Factored
> dimensions of organizational behavior II. Aircraft workers. /Educational
> and Psychological Measurement, 15/ , 371-382.
>
>
>
> Lawrence, P. R. (1958) /The Changing of Organizational Behavior
> Patterns. Boston: /Harvard University Graduate School of Business
> Administration.
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>
>
> March, J. G., & Simon, H. A. (1958). /Organizations. New York: /John
> Wiley & Sons.
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>
>
> Presthus, R. V. (1958). Toward a theory of organizational behavior.
> /Administrative Science Quarterly/, /3/, 48-72.
>
>
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> van Heller Gilmer, B. (1960). Industrial psychology. /Annual Review of
> Psychology/, /11/, 323-350.
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Neal M. Ashkanasy, PhD
>
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> From: Organizational Behavior Division Listserv
> [mailto:
OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of Dharm P S Bhawuk
> Sent: Saturday, 30 January 2010 6:56 AM
> To:
OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
> Subject: Re: [OB-LIST] Narrative history of OB: William F. Whyte,
> Lawrence, Lorsch ...
>
>
>
> *Greetings Kevin:*
>
> *Perhaps, William Foote Whyte's book, Organizational Behaviour (1961),
> was the first OB book. Examining the first text book would provide some
> narrative. *
>
> *Similarly, examining the Handbook of Organizational Behavior edited by
> Jay Lorsch (1987), and the Lawrence, Barnes, & Lorsch (1976) *edited
> Organizational Behavior and Administration: Cases and Readings could
> also throw some light on the field of OB.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bhawuk
> Dharm P. S. Bhawuk
> Professor of Management and
> Culture and Community Psychology
> Shidler College of Business
> University of Hawai`i, Manoa
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin Corley <
Kevin.Corley@ASU.EDU>
> Date: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:40 am
> Subject: [OB-LIST] Narrative history of OB
> To:
OB@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
>
> > Hi everyone. I'm checking to see if anyone knows of a narrative
> > history of the OB field - something suitable for introducing new
> > doctoral students to the early years of OB research and the
> > origins of our discipline. I have found tidbits of that history
> > in various places, but no single narrative that captures the
> > progression across the years (important people, events, and
> > theories, but doesn't delve into the theories themselves).
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
> >
> > Kevin Corley
> >
kcorley@asu.edu
>