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Managing in the Corporate Interest - Control and Resistance in an American Bank (Paperback)
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In the 1980s, corporate America experienced massive cutbacks and
organizational decline after decades of economic growth and
dominance. The institutional and ideological changes that were part
of the transformation created a new landscape of work and social
relations for corporate middle managers. Managing in the Corporate
Interest assesses this landscape by examining a large diversified
bank that restructured its organizational and personnel policies to
meet a new era of corporate competition. Drawing on interviews with
managers and personnel management employees, observation of
management training seminars, and documentary sources, this book
examines the unique mission handed to middle managers to scale back
paternalistic employment policies. It also analyzes the
intra-management conflict incurred when corporate top managers
attempted to disguise their downsizing strategies and refused to
acknowledge their own role in creating the bank's economic crisis.
Vicki Smith's work suggests that quick-fix strategies such as
downsizing and cutbacks, which dominated corporate profitability
strategies in the 1980s, can corrode trust and legitimacy in the
workplace. In the long run, such strategies also undermine consent
to the current and very necessary transformation of the way
American firms do business. Managing in the Corporate Interest
contains important lessons about the rise and decline of economic
enterprises and provides a wide-ranging look at changes in the
management, structure, and production processes of American
corporations. Richly documented and accessibly written, this
incisive work will appeal to business people and scholars alike.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1990.
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