Memory as a moral decision : the role of ethics in organizational culture / Steven P. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Steven P. (Steven Paul), 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business ethics.

Corporate culture--Moral and ethical aspects.

Corporate culture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

1. The Chain of Memory: On the Relations Between Moral Culture, the Individual, and the Past 3

Part 2 Establishing Traditions

2. The Disinheritance of Management Ethics: Rational Individualism in Barnard's The Functions of the Executive 37

3. The Ethics of Shifting Ties: Moral Relativism in Melville Dalton's Men Who Manage 57

Part 3 Ethical Rationalism

4. Management Ethics Without the Past: Rationalism and Individualism in Critical Organizational Theory 83

5. Micro Matters: The Aesthetics of Power in NASA's Flight Readiness Review 109

Part 4 Ethical Relativism

6. The Revolt Against Cultural Authority: Power/Knowledge as an Assumption in Organization Theory 133

7. Playing with the Pieces: Deconstruction and the Loss of Moral Culture 155

8. The Leveling of Organizational Culture: Egalitarianism and Ethics in Critical Postmodern Organization Theory 181

9. Sanctuaries Against the Modern World 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-222) and index.

ISBN:

0765801051

OCLC:

48678750