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Dustin Schneider; Illustrated by Steve Feldman
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The notion of organizational culture has become a matter of central
importance with the great increase in the size of organizations in
the twentieth century and the need for managers to run them. Like
morale in the military, organizational culture is the great
invisible force that decides the difference between success and
failure and serves as the key to organizational change,
productivity, effectiveness, control, innovation, and
communication. "Memory as a Moral Decision," provides a historical
review of the literature on organizational culture. Its goal is to
investigate the kind of world conceptualized by those who have
described organizations and the kind of moral world they have in
fact constructed, through its ideals and images, for the men and
women who work in organizations.
Feldman builds his analysis around a historically grounded concept
of moral tradition. He demonstrates a central insight: when those
who have written on organizational culture have addressed issues of
ethics, they have ignored the past as a foundation to stabilize and
maintain moral commitments. Instead, they have fluctuated between
attempts to base ethics on executive rationality and attempts to
escape the suffocating logic of rationalism. After an opening
chapter defining the concept of moral tradition, Feldman focuses on
early works on organizational management by Chester Barnard and
Melville Dalton. These define the tension between ethical
rationalism and ethical relativism. He then turns to contemporary
frameworks, analyzing critical organizational theory and the "new
institutionalism." In the final chapters, Feldman considers ethical
relativism in contemporary thinking, including postmodern
organization theory, the exaggerated drive for diversity, and such
concepts as power/knowledge and deconstructionism.
"Memory as a Moral Decision" is unique in its understanding of
organizational culture as it relates to past, present, and future
systems. Its interdisciplinary approach uses the insights of
sociology, psychology, and culture studies to create an invaluable
framework for the study of ethics in organizations.
Steven P. Feldman is associate professor of management policy at
the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve
University. He is the author of "The Culture of Monopoly
Management: An Interpretive Study in an American Utility."
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