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21%OFFMichel Anteby - Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant - 9780691135243 - V9780691135243
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Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant

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Description for Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant Hardback. Offers a window into gray zones through its look at the manufacture and exchange of illegal goods called homers, tolerated in a French aeronautic plant. This book argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the production of homers offer workplaces balanced opportunities for supervision as well as expression. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 halftones. 4 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: JHBL; KJG; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 240 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 496.
Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated practices--gray zones. When discovered, these transgressions often provoke disapproval; when company materials are diverted in the process, these breaches are quickly labeled theft. Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
496g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691135243
SKU
V9780691135243
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About Michel Anteby
Michel Anteby is assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School.

Reviews for Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant
Moral Gray Zones is an important book for scholars of organizations to be aware of and read, especially to continue building empirical knowledge of the subterranean administration and underlife of workplaces... Moral Gray Zones is argued well, accessible and does what very good research should do
advance knowledge in a field for others to evaluate, contest, affirm and advance.
David Shulman, ... Read more

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