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Moral Mazes : The World of Corporate Managers

ISBN: 9780195060805 | 0195060806
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/21/1989

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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... MORE
Introduction: Business as a Social and Moral Terrainp. 3
Moral Probations, Old and Newp. 7
The Social Structure of Managerial Workp. 17
The Main Chancep. 41
Looking Up and Looking Aroundp. 75
Drawing Linesp. 101
Dexterity with Symbolsp. 134
The Magic Lanternp. 162
Invitations to Jeopardyp. 191
Author... MOREp. 205
Notesp. 207
Suggestions for Further Readingp. 235
Indexp. 239
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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.

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