Organizational Membership

Howell S. Baum is Professor at the University of Maryland's Institute for Urban Studies.

• Introduction Part One: Experiencing Organizational Work 1.Organizational Experience: What People Expect of Work Organizations2. The Developmental Meanings of Work Part Two: Initiation into Organizational Roles 3. Organizational Demands of the New Worker: Sociological and Anthropological Accounts4. The New Worker Responds: A Psychoanalytic View Part Three: Trying to Grow at Work 5. Becoming a Member: Looking for Work Ability, Work Identity, and Organizational Affiliation6. Growing In and Out of the Organization: Mentoring and Making Sense Part Four: Disappointment and Its Consequences 7. Working Without Belonging: Fixation on Recognition, Autonomy, and Power8. Disappointments Remediable and Irremediable: Playing Toward Membership or Withdrawal Part Five: Organizational Membership: Problems and Possibilities 9. How Organizational Politics Hinders Organizational Affiliations10. Worker Development and Organizational Development Appendix: The Research Notes References Index

"This is an innovative integration of psychoanalytic theory, sociology of organizations, and consultation that goes beyond sociology, psychoanalysis, industrial psychology and career studies to undergird all of them with a more complex and sophisticated conceptualization focused on career choice and career development. Not many 'how to' books offer a solid theoretical base; not many theoretical books offer modes of ready application. This book does both in an eminently readable way." — Harry Levinson, Levinson Institute and Harvard University Medical School