Death of the spirit in the American workplace / Seth Allcorn ; foreword by Howard F. Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allcorn, Seth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--United States.

Industrial management.

United States.

Organizational behavior--United States.

Organizational behavior.

Leadership--United States.

Leadership.

Corporate culture--United States.

Corporate culture.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 189 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.

Summary:

Explains how the human spirit can be made victim of organizational strategies to survive, and why this can then cause the death of the organization itself.

Contents:

1. Rationality in the Workplace 1

2. Irrationality in the Workplace 9

3. The Human Spirit in the Workplace 19

4. Secular Spirituality and Leadership in the Workplace 31

5. Secular Spirituality and the Nature of Followers 55

6. The Role of Leaders in Supporting the Human Spirit in the Workplace 75

7. The Role of Followers in Supporting the Human Spirit in the Workplace 93

8. Reflections of the Workplace 117

9. Knowing, Learning and the Human Spirit: Creating the Competitive Twenty-First-Century Organization 139

10. Third Millennium Workplace Secular Spirituality 167.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-184) and index.

ISBN:

1567204880

OCLC:

46929271