Moral Mazes The World of Corporate Managers

by Jackall, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780195060805
• ISBN10: 0195060806
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-09-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Robert Jackall presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. He takes the reader inside the intricate world of the corporation where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. This brilliant, sometimes unsettling, often wildly funny study presents compelling real life stories of the men and women charged with running the businesses of America. Book jacket.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Business as a Social and Moral Terrain	p. 3
Moral Probations, Old and New	p. 7
The Social Structure of Managerial Work	p. 17
The Main Chance	p. 41
Looking Up and Looking Around	p. 75
Drawing Lines	p. 101
Dexterity with Symbols	p. 134
The Magic Lantern	p. 162
Invitations to Jeopardy	p. 191
Author's Note	p. 205
Notes	p. 207
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 235
Index	p. 239
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