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Stanford -- Center on Work, Technology and Organizing

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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 10:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: pwwright@leland.stanford.edu (Paula Wright)

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT CENTER ON WORK, TECHNOLOGY AND ORGANIZING

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING STANFORD UNIVERSITY

FACULTY POSITIONS

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) at Stanford University seeks to fill two tenure-track positions in its newly established Center on Work, Technology and Organization (WTO) during the coming year. The level of appointment is open. We invite both junior and senior scholars to apply.

WTO's mission is threefold: (1) to generate knowledge, research and theory on the relationship between work, technology, and organization, (2) to develop educational programs on work and technology and (3) to serve as a nexus for an extended intellectual community of researchers from academia, industry and government who are concerned with issues of work and technology. Representative research areas that would fall within WTO's mandate include: the interplay between technologies and work practices; the relation between work practices and organization design; the consequences of a shifting technological infrastructure for cultural understandings of work; designers', managers', and workers' images of work; and research and development as a form of work. Although open to all research methods, WTO is strongly committed to field research, since we start from the premise that our knowledge of work and work processes in contemporary organizations is insufficient.

We are primarily interested in applicants who study the intersection between work and technology in situ. We are less concerned with disciplinary background and, in fact, hope to build an interdisciplinary team. All else being equal, experience in or knowledge of engineering, design or the physical sciences will be looked upon favorably. The individual selected must have an interest in and skills broadly relevant for a school of engineering. WTO will emphasize social and organizational studies of work and technology rather than traditional human factors and ergonomics. We encourage applications from active researchers who fit these general specifications, including organizational theorists, behavioral scientists and social scientists as well as industrial engineers and computer scientists interested in situated studies of work. Applicants should possess or soon expect to receive a Ph.D. We expect the individuals we hire to continue as active researchers and to be willing collaborators who are committed to building WTO into a vibrant intellectual community.

In addition to playing a central role in WTO, applicants will also have teaching and citizenship responsibilities in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. IEEM offers a unique environment for teaching and research in the context of an Engineering School. IEEM's faculty brings engineers together with social scientists around a curriculum that fuses production, operations management and engineering risk analysis with organizational behavior and the management of technology.

Stanford University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Female and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Interested individuals should submit a vita and samples of their work by November 15, 1997 to: Professor Stephen R. Barley, Chair of the Search Committee, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Terman 340, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4024. ```

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