The Foundations of Organizational Evil

ISBN-13: 9780765625595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

Carole L. Jurkiewicz

Opis

Argues that the existence and maintenance of an evil organization is a complex interaction of individuals, organizations, and environmental factors. The book achieves five distinct objectives: it gives professionals, scholars, and students a broad understanding of evil from a conceptual and practical vantage; it provides a scientific paradigm for interdisciplinary research and theory; it serves as a synthesis linking the divergent, interdisciplinary perspectives on evil into a cohesive whole, making it the seminal work in the field; it provides a better understanding of the potential relationships between organizational evil and various aspects of organizational functioning; and it integrates a philosophical and pragmatic understanding of organizational evil into a coherent approach to management and administration in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Spis treści

Introduction, Part I. The Nature of Organizational Evil 1. Evil at Work 2. The Dynamics of Administrative Evil in Organizations 3. Machiavellians and Organizational Evil 4. Evil in Public Administration: A Contrary Perspective 5. On the Psychology of Evil in Interpersonal and Corporate Contexts Part II. Understanding Organizational Evil 6. Power in Organizations: Good vs. Evil 7. Holy Evil 8. Imagining and Managing Organizational Evil 9. For “the Greater Good”: Exposing the Parody of Necessary Evil—Exemplars from Organizational Life 10. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa: Understanding Roots of and Responses to Societal Evil 11. Unconsciousness and Organizational Evil 12. The Four Roots of Organizational Evil Part III. Faces of Organizational Evil 13. The Evil of Utopia 14. Lawyers’ Ethics in Decline 15. The Moral Dimension of Security Outsourcing 16. Devolution 17. Organizational Systemic Factors of Evil in an Academic University Culture

O autorze

Jurkiewicz, Carole L.