Robert Jackall

Moral Mazes (eBook, ePUB)

The World of Corporate Managers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Robert Jackall's Moral Mazes offers an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Based on extensive interviews with managers at every level of two industrial firms and of a large public relations agency, Moral Mazes takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation. Jackall reveals a world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but where sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. Cheerfully-bland public faces mask intense competition in this world where people hide their intentions, and accountability often depends on the ability to outrun mistakes. In this topsy-turvy world, managers must bring often unforgiving technology and always difficult people together to make money, an uncompromising task demanding continual compromises with conventional truths. Moral questions become merely practical concerns and issues of public relations. Sooner or later, managers find themselves wondering how to act in such a world and still maintain a sense of personal integrity. This brilliant, sometimes disturbing, often wildly funny study of corporate thinking, decision-making, and morality presents compelling real life stories of the men and women charged with running the businesses of America. It will interest anyone concerned with how big organizations actually function, or with the current moral malaise in our public life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199361649
• Artikelnr.: 39860045

Autorenporträt

Robert Jackall is Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College. He is the author of Workers in a Labyrinth: Jobs and Survival in a Bank Bureaucracy, and of many essays and reviews in publications such as Harvard Business Review, America, Commonweal, Science, and Contemporary Sociology. He also co-edited Worker Cooperatives in America with Henry M. Levin.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Business as a Social and Moral Terrain
1.: Moral Probations, Old and New
2.: The Social Structure of Managerial Work
3.: The Main Chance
4.: Looking Up and Looking Around
5.: Drawing Lines
6.: Dexterity with Symbols
7.: The Magic Lantern
8.: Invitations to Jeopardy
Author's Note
Afterword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading