SRP Year
1991-1992
Principal Investigator(s)
Randy Hodson
Study Description
This study included (1) a telephone survey of workers and (2) reading of workplace ethnographies and coding information about each organization and its workers. In telephone surveys, students asked workers a variety of questions about their training, activities, coworkers, relations on the job, and attitudes about work. In reading and coding workplace ethnographies, students focused on information about the companies, with particular attention paid to training, work practices, worker resistance, and group relations at work.
Research Team
Cher Jamison
This study was conducted with support from the staff at the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University and used the Center's centralized telephone interviewing facility located on the Bloomington campus.
Sources of Support
This study was supported by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Related Scholarly Output
Publications
- Hodson, Randy. 1996. “Dignity in the Workplace Under Participative Management: Alienation and Freedom Revisited.” American Sociological Review 61(5):719–38.
- Hodson, Randy. 1997. “Group Relations at Work: Solidarity, Conflict, and Relations With Management.” Work and Occupations 24(4):426–52.
- Hodson, Randy. 1998a. “Organizational Ethnographies: An Underutilized Resource in the Sociology of Work.” Social Forces 76(4):1173–1208.
- Hodson, Randy. 1998b. “Pride in Task Completion and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour: Evidence from the Ethnographic Literature.” Work & Stress 12(4):307–21.
- Hodson, Randy. 1999a. Analyzing Documentary Accounts. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Hodson, Randy. 1999b. “Management Citizenship Behavior: A New Concept and an Empirical Test.” Social Problems 46(3):460–78.
- Hodson, Randy. 1999c. “Organizational Anomie and Worker Consent.” Work and Occupations 26(3):292–323.
- Hodson, Randy. 2001. Dignity at Work. Cambridge University Press.
- Hodson, Randy, Sean Creighton, Cheryl Sorenson Jamison, Sabine Rieble, and Sandy Welsh. 1994. “Loyalty to Whom? Workplace Participation and the Development of Consent.” Human Relations 47(8):895–909.
- Hodson, Randy, Sandy Welsh, Sabine Rieble, Cheryl Sorenson Jamison, and Sean Creighton. 1993. “Is Worker Solidarity Undermined by Autonomy and Participation? Patterns from the Ethnographic Literature.” American Sociological Review 58(3):398–416.