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Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
Robert Jackall
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Description for Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJG; KJM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 235 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. What sort of everyday rules-in-use do people play by when there are no fixed standards to explain why some succeed and others fail? In the words of one corporate manager, those rules boil down to this maxim: What is right in the corporation is ... Read more
This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. What sort of everyday rules-in-use do people play by when there are no fixed standards to explain why some succeed and others fail? In the words of one corporate manager, those rules boil down to this maxim: What is right in the corporation is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
303
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
485g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199729883
SKU
V9780199729883
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About Robert Jackall
Robert Jackall is the Willmott Family Third Century Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs, Williams College; author of Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy (Chicago, 2000), Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order (Harvard, 1997), and Street Stories: The World of Police Detectives (Harvard, 2005).
Reviews for Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers
Some books have the rare fortune to become ever more relevant, more useful, and more interesting twenty years after they were written. This books fortune involves a kind of misfortune, because the phenomena that Moral Mazes analyzes are deplorable, and we would wish that the book were no longer relevant. Originally published in 1989, Moral Mazes has been supplemented for ... Read more