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Values at Work
George Cheney
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Description for Values at Work
Paperback. Series: ILR Press Books. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; JHBL; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Values at Work is an analysis of organizational dynamics with wide-ranging implications in an age of market globalization. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-oriented work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy. George Cheney revisits the famous Mondragón worker-owned-and-governed cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain to examine how that collection of innovative and democratic businesses is responding to the broad trend of marketization.
The Mondragón cooperatives are changing in important ways as a direct result of both external pressures to be more competitive and the rise of consumerism, as well as through the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
ILR Press Books
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801488160
SKU
V9780801488160
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About George Cheney
George Cheney is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. He is coauthor of Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization and coeditor of International and Multicultural Organizational Communication.
Reviews for Values at Work
Cheney has identified a deadly fascinating dilemma: Mondragon's executives feel that they must grow or die: either meet and match foreign competition or be overwhelmed.... Cheney renders a valuable service by bringing new systemic concerns to the attention of the scholarly community and Mondragon leadership and by uncovering the process by which success and growth in any organization may ultimately ... Read more