Memory as a Moral Decision: The Role of Ethics in Organizational Culture

by Feldman,Steve

• ISBN13: 9780765801050
• ISBN10: 0765801051
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The notion of organizational culture has become a matter of central importance with the great increase in the size of organizations in the twentieth century. Organizational culture is the great invisible force that decides the difference between success and failure and serves as the key to organizational change, productivity, innovation, and communication. Memory as a Moral Decision investigates the kind of world conceptualized by those who have described organizations and the kind of moral world they have in fact constructed, through its ideals and images, for the men and women who work in organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part 1: Introduction
The Chain of Memory: On the Relations Between Moral Culture, the Individual, and the Past	3	(34)
Part 2: Establishing Traditions
The Disinheritance of Management Ethics: Rational Individualism in Barnard's The Functions of the Executive	37	(20)
The Ethics of Shifting Ties: Moral Relativism in Melville Dalton's Men Who Manage	57	(26)
Part 3: Ethical Rationalism
Management Ethics Without the Past: Rationalism and Individualism in Critical Organizational Theory	83	(26)
Micro Matters: The Aesthetics of Power in NASA's Flight Readiness Review	109	(24)
Part 4: Ethical Relativism
The Revolt Against Cultural Authority: Power/Knowledge as an Assumption in Organization Theory	133	(22)
Playing with the Pieces: Deconstruction and the Loss of Moral Culture	155	(26)
The Leveling of Organizational Culture: Egalitarianism and Ethics in Critical Postmodern Organization Theory	181	(22)
Conclusion
Sanctuaries Against the Modern World	203	(10)
References	213	(10)
Index	223