Memory As a Moral Decision - The Role of Ethics in Organizational Culture

Informationen zum Autor Steve Feldman Klappentext The notion of organiational culture has become a matter of central importance with the great increase in the sie of organiations in the twentieth century. Organiational culture is the great invisible force that decides the difference between success and failure and serves as the key to organiational change! productivity! innovation! and communication. Memory as a Moral Decision investigates the kind of world conceptualied by those who have described organiations and the kind of moral world they have in fact constructed! through its ideals and images! for the men and women who work in organiations. Zusammenfassung The notion of organizational culture has become a matter of central importance with the great increase in the size of organizations in the twentieth century and the need for managers to run them Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Introduction 1. The Chain of Memory: On the Relations Between Moral Culture, the Individual, and the Past 3 Part 2: Establishing Traditions 2. The Disinheritance of Management Ethics: Rational Individualism in Barnard’s The Functions of the Executive 37 3. The Ethics of Shifting Ties: Moral Relativism in Melville Dalton’s Men Who Manage 57 Part 3: Ethical Rationalism 4. Management Ethics Without the Past: Rationalism and Individualism in Critical Organizational Theory 83 5. Micro Matters: The Aesthetics of Power in NASA’s Flight Readiness Review 109 Part 4: Ethical Relativism 6. The Revolt Against Cultural Authority: Power/Knowledge as an Assumption in Organization Theory 7. Playing with the Pieces: Deconstruction and the Loss of Moral Culture 155 8. The Leveling of Organizational Culture: Egalitarianism in Critical Postmodern Organization Theoiy 181 9. Conclusion: Sanctuaries Against the Modem World 203

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• Authors: Stephen P. Feldman, Steve Feldman, Steve P. Feldman, Steven P. Feldman
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2002
• EAN: 9780765801050
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0105-0
• No. of pages: 195
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Business ethics & social responsibility, Sociology & anthropology, Business ethics and social responsibility, Sociology and anthropology