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Moral mazes : the world of corporate managers
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business ethics--United States.
- Business ethics.
- Corporations--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Corporations.
- Executives--Professional ethics--United States.
- Executives.
- Genre:
- Electronic Books
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Edition:
- Twentieth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This classic study of ethics in business presents an eye-opening account of how corporate managers think the world works, and how big organizations shape moral consciousness. Robert Jackall takes the reader inside a topsy-turvy world where hard work does not necessarily lead to success, but sharp talk, self-promotion, powerful patrons, and sheer luck might. What sort of everyday rules-in-use do people play by when there are no fixed standards to explain why some succeed and others fail? In the words of one corporate manager, those rules boil down to this maxim: ""What is right in the corporati
- Contents:
- Moral probations, old and new
- The social structure of managerial work
- The main chance
- Looking up and looking around
- Drawing lines
- Dexterity with symbols
- The magic lantern
- Invitations to jeopardy.
- Notes:
- GOBI
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-936164-9
- 0-19-997401-2
- OCLC:
- 861538499
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