Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

This updated edition of a 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. This edition includes a new foreword linking the themes of Moral Mazes to the financial tsunami that engulfed the world economy in 2008.

ISBN-13: 9780199729883

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 12-08-2009

Pages: 320

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Robert Jackall is Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Williams College. He is the author of Workers in a Labyrinth: Jobs and Survival in a Bank Bureaucracy, and of many essays and reviews in publications such as Harvard Business Review, America, Commonweal, Science, and Contemporary Sociology. He also co-edited Worker Cooperatives in America with Henry M. Levin.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Business as a Social and Moral Terrain
1. Moral Probations, Old and New
2. The Social Structure of Managerial Work
3. The Main Chance
4. Looking Up and Looking Around
5. Drawing Lines
6. Dexterity with Symbols
7. The Magic Lantern
8. Invitations to Jeopardy
Author's Note
Afterword to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Notes
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