Michel Anteby
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Michel Anteby is a Franco-American organizational scholar and sociologist. He is known for his research on the evolution of professional groups, including studies of clinical anatomists, craftsmen, ghostwriters, puppeteers, and business school professors. He is a Professor of Management & Organizations at Boston University's Questrom School of Business and Sociology at Boston University's College of Arts & Sciences. Anteby is the author of Moral Gray Zones : Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant and Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education.
Career
Anteby grew up and worked in France before coming to the United States for a master's degree in public administration at Harvard University. He then embarked on doctoral studies at New York University's Stern School of Business and EHESS (France). After completing his PhD, he was part of Harvard Business School's faculty, rising from assistant to associate professor.[1] In 2015, he joined Boston University's Questrom School of Business as a tenured faculty.
Research and published work
Anteby's first book centered on a group of craftsmen in a French aeronautics factory and the illegal behaviors they engaged in to maintain their sense of worth. In this unnamed factory, craftsmen used company time, tools, and materials to create artifacts for their personal use (such as toys, window frames, kitchen utensils and more). The study titled Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant shows how management is willing to tolerate illegal behaviors in exchange for added efforts on regular production. Readers described the book as an organizational ethnography channeling "the spirit of industrial sociology of the 1950s, when students of work and organization encountered the shop floor up close" and "came away understanding how everyday behaviors formed the woof and warp of industrialization's social fabric."[2] This book was a finalist for the Academy of Management's George R Terry Book Award.
His second book, Manufacturing Morals: the Values of Silence in Business School Education, was also a finalist for the Academy of Management's George R Terry Book Award. It is an ethnographic study of faculty socialization at the Harvard Business School. The study aims to answer "a timeless and important question in organization theory: how do organizations ensure that their employees engage in “moral conduct” or, more generally, conduct consistent with the organization’s values?"[3] As another reader observed, the book engages via "Anteby’s own experiences as a newly minted PhD taking up a position as an assistant professor" with the ways in which the school "deploys its tremendous resources to gently, seemingly inexorably re-form new members. Readers who are faculty at less wealthy institutions may feel some envy. But they may also feel some gratitude that their own schools are not so creepily successful as the School at creating the total institution-like experience of resocialization."[4] The book argues that the school shapes its faculty via "vocal silence" defined as “a routine that requires significant decision making on the part of those involved with little direct guidance from higher authorities in a context rich in normative signs” (p. 127). In doing so, the school provides "the perception of self-determination to prevail" while still guiding behavior (p. 9). Anteby later clarified that, in his view, "silence is not enough"[5] and that such an "ideology of non-ideology" is problematic given that in such a context "almost anything can be labeled 'moral' and few behaviors can be deemed 'immoral.'"[6]
His subsequent research looks, more broadly, at how individuals relate to their work, their occupations, and the organizations they belong to. As an illustration, Anteby examined how U.S. clinical anatomists dealt with the rise of "body-brokers."[7] His analysis explains how anatomists maintain what they perceived to be the morality of their work by engaging in specific practices (e.g., maintaining the integrity of the body) that distinguish them from entrepreneurial ventures.[8] With co-authors, Anteby has also analyzed workers' reactions to shifting workplace dynamics (such as intense surveillance and invisibility). For example, a study of Transportation Security Administration's officers challenges the assumption that more intensive surveillance leads to higher visibility of employees' behavior.[9] In fact, the more observed TSA officers felt, the more "invisible" they tried to become and often evaded their managers' scrutiny.[10] As another example, Anteby has examined the ways ghostwriters regained some agency when working on the memoirs' of other people.[11] Together, these studies help explain how people maintain their self-esteem under increasingly precarious working conditions.
Bibliography
- Moral Gray Zones : Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant (Princeton University Press, 2008) ISBN 9780691135243 Search this book on
. - Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education (University of Chicago Press, 2013) ISBN 9780226323510 Search this book on .
References
- ↑ Kannan, Charanya (May 11, 2016). "Tenure system: Performance motivator or Russian roulette?". The Harbus. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
- ↑ Anteby, Michel (2008-07-21). Moral Gray Zones. ISBN 978-0-691-13524-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Davis-Blake, Alison (2015-03-01). "Michel Anteby: Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education". Administrative Science Quarterly. 60 (1): NP7–NP9. doi:10.1177/0001839214551330. ISSN 0001-8392. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Sandefur, Rebecca L. (2015-09-01). "Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education". Contemporary Sociology. 44 (5): 625–626. doi:10.1177/0094306115599351b. ISSN 0094-3061. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Anteby, Michel (Jan 22, 2014). "Why Silence Is Not Enough (SSIR)". Stanford Social Innovation Review. Archived from the original on 2020-04-20. Retrieved 2021-04-27. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Anteby, Michel (2016-01-01), "The Ideology of Silence at the Harvard Business School: Structuring Faculty's Teaching Tasks for Moral Relativism", The Structuring of Work in Organizations, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 47, pp. 103–121, doi:10.1108/S0733-558X20160000047015, ISBN 978-1-78635-436-5, retrieved 2021-04-27
- ↑ Purtill, Corinne. "Inside the highly experimental, loosely regulated world of for-profit body donation". Quartz. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ↑ "The Secret Lives of Cadavers". Science. 2016-07-29. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ↑ "Why Monitoring Your Employees' Behavior Can Backfire". Harvard Business Review. 2018-04-25. ISSN 0017-8012. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ↑ "Eyes on you". www.kornferry.com. Retrieved 2021-04-11.
- ↑ Anteby, Michel; Occhiuto, Nicholas (2020-02-10). "Stand-in Labor and the Rising Economy of Self". Social Forces. 98 (3): 1287–1310. doi:10.1093/sf/soz028. ISSN 0037-7732.
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