1. Managerial and Professional Work
Class 1

2. Administrative
Give quiz
Return quizzes

3. Review
Service Work
Has significant differences from industrial work but also significant similarities
Some service work quite similar to industrial work and some quite different
Any questions about Pierce “Rambo Litigators” or Jackall “The Social Structure of Managerial Work?”

4. Today
Professional Work
Managerial Work
Line v. Staff

5. I. Professional Work Can you name some professions?
What makes work professional?
What does it mean to call someone a lawn care professional? How about a professional waiter or waitress?
Is this what we are talking about here?
Do they do professional work?
In what sense do they or don’t they?

6. II. Managerial Work What makes work managerial? What do managers do?
Is there any particular training or preparation that goes into making someone a manager?

7. II. Managerial Work What are professional organizations? Examples?
Law firms
Accounting firms
Medical practices and hospitals
Colleges
How are they managed? What particular issues arise in managing professional organizations?

8. III. Line v. Staff What are line managers? What are staff?
What is their relationship in the organization?
What is different in this relationship in professional organizations?

9. Next Time
Continue discussion of professional and managerial work next class

10. Managerial and Professional Work
Class 2

11. Administrative
Return quizzes

12. Review
Professional work characterized by specialized training, control over the work and professional ethics
No particular training necessary to be a manager
Line versus staff

13. Today Emotional labor Gender-stereotyped professions
Women and discrimination in the professions
Gender-stereotypes in management
Women and discrimination in management
Professional and Managerial Work and Identity

14. I. Emotional Labor
What does it mean to do “emotional labor” on your job?
What is the principal kind of emotional labor that Pierce says attorneys do?
What kinds of emotional labor might other professionals do?
How about managers?

15. II. Gender-stereotyped professions
Are there stereotypically male professions?
How about female?
What social purpose do those stereotypes serve?
What are the sources of those stereotypes?

16. III. Women and Discrimination in the Professions
How have women been discriminated against in the professions? What forms has such discrimination taken?
How has this changed in the last 50 years? The last 10 years?
Would professions be a better place for women (given the fact of discrimination) than other occupations? Why or why not?

17. IV. Gender-stereotypes in Management
Are there stereotypically male management positions?
How about female?
What social function do those stereotypes serve?
What are the sources of those stereotypes?

18. V. Women and Discrimination in Management
Have women been discriminated against in the occupation of management? What forms has such discrimination taken?
How has this changed in the last 50 years? The last 10 years?
Would management be a better or worse place for women than the professions (given the fact of discrimination)?

19. VI. Professional and Managerial Work and Identity
How does professional work relate to a person’s identity?
How does managerial work relate to a person’s identity?
How are they similar and how are they different?

20. Next Time
Begin unit on care work