CANON REVISION:
HISTORY, THEORY, PRACTICE
Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara
English 236
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES TO SYLLABUS
(Last revised 9/10/98)
1998-99 Course Home Page
"Team Concept"
Team concept refers to the practice and ideology of "team work"
in the postindustrial "flexible," "flat," "just
in time," "continuous quality improvement," "lifelong
learning," "reengineered," "downsized"
corporation. It will be useful in this course to reflect on the concept
(together with all its "flat," "flexible," and other
correlatives) in critical conjunction to the issues of academic canon
revision. For an introduction to the "team" or the new
corporatism generally, consult the following works:
- Influential General Works on the New Corporatism (most of which
include discussion of teams)
- Boyett, Joseph H., and Henry P. Conn, Workplace 2000: The
Revolution Reshaping American Business (New York: Plume /
Penguin, 1992)
- Davidow, William H., and Michael S. Malone, The Virtual
Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the
21st Century (New York: HarperBusiness, 1992)
- Hammer, Michael, and James Champy, Reengineering the
Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (New York:
HarperBusiness, 1993)
- Tapscott, Don, The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the
Age of Networked Intelligence (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996)
- Tomasko, Robert M., Downsizing: Reshaping the Corporation for
the Future, rev. ed. (New York: American Management Assoc.,
1990)
- Works on the Team Concept
- Katzenbach, Jon R., and Douglas K. Smith, The Wisdom of
Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization (New York:
HarperBusiness, 1994) [first pub. 1993]
- Mohrman, Susan Albers, Susan G. Cohen, and Allan M. Mohrman, Jr.,
Designing Team-Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work
(San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1995)
- Gardenswartz, Lee, and Anita Rowe, Diverse Teams at Work:
Capitalizing on the Power of Diversity (Burr Ridge, Illinois:
Irwin, 1994)
- Parker, Mike, and Jane Slaughter, Choosing Sides: Unions and
the Team Concept (Detroit: Labor Notes / South End Press, 1988)
One of the aspects of postindustrialism that is most relevant to the
topics of canon revision is the 1990's movement known as "diversity
management." See the following works:
- Johnston, William B., and Arnold H. Packer, Workplace 2000: Work
and Workers for the 21st Century, prepared for the U. S. Department
of Labor (Indianapolis, Indiana: Hudson Institute, June 1987)
- Carnevale, Anthony Patrick, and Susan Carol Stone, The American
Mosaic: An In-Depth Report on the Future of Diversity at Work (New
York: McGraw-Hill, 1995)
- Gardenswartz, Lee, and Anita Rowe, Managing Diversity: A Complete
Desk Reference and Planning Guide (Burr Ridge, Illinois: Irwin,
1993)
- Harris, Philip R., and Robert T. Moran, Managing Cultural
Differences: Leadership Strategies for a New World of Business, 4th
ed. (Houston, Texas: Gulf Publishing, 1996)
- Jamieson, David, and Julie O'Mara, Managing Workforce 2000:
Gaining the Diversity Advantage (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991)
- Loden, Marilyn, and Judy B. Rosener, Workforce America! Managing
Employee Diversity as a Vital Resource (Homewood, Illinois: Business
One Irwin, 1991)
- Thomas, Jr., R. Roosevelt, Beyond Race and Gender: Unleashing the
Power of Your Total Work Force by Managing Diversity (New York:
AMACOM, 1991)
Also see Joel Kotkin, Tribes: How Race, Religion, and Identity
Determine Success in the New Global Economy (New York: Random House,
1992) for a historical approach to the relation between ethnicity and the
new corporate world order.
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Alan Liu,
Dept. of
English, Univ. of California, Santa
Barbara, CA 93106
Fax: (805) 893-4622 E-mail: ayliu@humanitas.ucsb.edu