Organizational Values in AmericaTransaction Publishers, 1989 M01 1 - 196 pages This sequel to the authors' acclaimed Organizational America reconsiders the central theme of that volume-the unprecedented growth of the modern organization in America and the replacement of American founding values by the values of the modern organization. That book warned that as the modern organization becomes the dominant social and economic reality in American life, influencing everything that individuals do on and off the job, the consequences for the future would be severe. The authors saw an America forced into a path that unimpeded could result in totalitarianism. |
Contents
The Surge and Decline of Organizational America | 1 |
Organizational America The Dissolution of the American Tradition | 13 |
The Organizational Imperative | 27 |
The Organizational Imperative Realized | 43 |
Organizational Roles | 65 |
The Insignificant People The Strategy of Mass Domination | 77 |
The Insignificant People The Tactics of Mass Domination | 97 |
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