Social Strategy & Corporate Structure (Studies of the Modern Corporation)
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    Social Strategy & Corporate Structure (Studies of the Modern Corporation)
    Neil W. Chamberlain
    Manufacturer: Free Press
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    This new work by Neil W. Chamberlain will be of great importance to the business community -- and to all those charged with defining the role large corporations play in the affairs of society.

    Social Strategy and Corporate Structure is an objective, indepth examination of the organizational requirements of a social role for large-scale business. The role Neil Chamberlain presents is one of heroic dimensions: the political choice of goals, the strategic allocation of resources, and the tactical operations of the mechanisms of production.

    While there has been much discussion of corporate social responsibility, few have investigated the ways its structure will have to change if the corporation is to pursue a strategy that is both economic and social. This timely book integrates a large number of issues involving corporate activities and governance that go directly to the heart of this problem.

    In step-by-step detail, Chamberlain analyzes the organizational imperatives of this new age of social responsibility: the composition and functions of boards of directors and the relation of their duties to a broad system of national planning; the internal social audit; changes in the characteristics of corporate social planning; and proposals for restructuring ultimate corporate authority, either through public or outside directors. In addition, he examines the potential relevance of federal chartering of corporations, and the effects of international economic interdependence on the development of a new corporate social strategy.

    This book is not a detailed blueprint for change. Rather, it presents a thorough, systematic study of available courses of action for improvement, based on the principle that conventional notions of corporate independence will have to be modified for any social strategy to work. And while not everyone will agree with Neil Chamberlain, few can afford to ignore his provocative insights into what corporations must do to function effectively in a changed social environment.
    Managing As If Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization (Catholic Social Tradition)
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    Managing As If Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization (Catholic Social Tradition)
    Helen J. Alford , and Michael J. Naughton
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    5 out of 5 stars Item in Great condition.......2006-02-28

    This item was shipped quickly and after receiving it, it is in mint condition. It is brand new and is a good book to read. Thanks!

    4 out of 5 stars From the cover:.......2005-08-16

    From the back of the book:
    How should personal faith and ethical standards influence work practices and decisions made with the workplace? The authors wrestle with this central question. Inspired by concern over the large gap between private and public moralities, they make a compelling argument for integrating the principles and values contained in Christian social teaching with management theory.

    5 out of 5 stars Insightful, comprehensive and practical.......2005-07-24

    I first encountered Michael Naughton when I read "The Integrity of a Catholic Management Education" in the California Management Review. I appreciated his practical insights into how Christian social principles (CSP) enlightens basic problems in general and functional management.

    "Managing as if Faith Mattered" by Naughton and Helen Alford is a welcome full-book treatment of CSP-inspired management which can be used for a full course in faith-based management. Complemented by Helen Alford's research in manufacturing engineering, Naughton covers CSP from the inside out, i.e., beginning with an examination of personal integration of faith and work, the purpose of business and the Catholic virtues, the authors then systematically demonstrate the application of CSP to various areas of management -- including marketing, job design, compensation, product development and corporate finance.

    The book is written in a readable tone even when it discusses the nuances of natural law and the Papal encyclicals. I have to admit that there are portions in the book which need several reading especially for CSP neophytes. But just when the going gets tough the authors cite real-life examples of business managers who make CSP come to life in their companies.

    A big revelation is the case of Reell Precision Manufacturing. The 35-year old company was founded by ex-3M employees based on Christian principles and through its history has achieved remarkable resilience as it met challenges that would have made average companies cave in to easy layoffs or top-down control strategies. Instead, Reell's management creatively "invented" management solutions to slow business and increasing costs which remained faithful to CSP principles of the common good, subsidiarity and the dignity of work.

    Teachers planning to use the book as a text will welcome the study questions at the end of each chapter as well as the extensive reference citations. The liberal use of italicization for key phrases is also a big help for the murkier sections.

    On the whole, Alford and Naughton have made a significant contribution to management education and development by making available this scholarly, yet eminently practical, volume that Christian managers and management educators will find valuable as a ready reference and a tool for personal and professional reflection, whether on their work desks or on their bedside tables.
    The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Eye-opening, informative, enjoyable.
    • Employer manipulation and arbitrariness (4.25*s)
    • Excellent book
    • Makes use of myriad areas to exemplify values and attitudes
    • A more optimistic 'Nickel and Dimed"
    The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work
    Joanne B. Ciulla
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    ASIN: 0812929012
    Release Date: 2000-02-01

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    Work, for most of us, is something we do, not something we think about. We may wonder whether our work is sufficiently stimulating, whether it brings in enough money, or whether it makes a difference in the grand scheme of things, but we don't often question what, in fact, work really is, and why we work in the first place. In The Working Life, Joanne Ciulla asks these critical questions and others, taking a philosophical, sociological, and practical look at the nature of work and its role in our lives today.

    As Ciulla points out, we live in a work-oriented society where, even though we have more freedom and flexibility than ever and more tools to increase convenience and efficiency, our work determines our lives. We have "gone beyond the work ethic," she states, to a point where our jobs have become our primary source of identity. To understand this, Ciulla looks at the values we reflect in our choice of jobs and professions, the attitudes we express in our language for work, and the sociohistorical journey that work has taken from cursed necessity to calling. She follows the path of work in our recent past, from unregulated labor and slavery, through unionism, to the rise of the all-encompassing corporation and today's blurred lines between private and public lives. In the final section, Ciulla investigates the role that work plays in our understanding and use of time and our search for meaning.

    Now teaching courses on ethics, leadership, and critical thinking at Virginia's University of Richmond, Ciulla has examined and experienced the nature of work from both sides of the managerial divide. After supporting herself through the first nine years of an academic career with bar and restaurant work, she went on to study and teach business ethics at Harvard and Wharton. These varied experiences give the book a balanced and sensitive tone, adding credibility to her insights. She supports and refines her ideas about work with the comments of philosophers, writers, sociologists, economists, management theorists, and even the narratives of popular television shows. Her sources range from Aristotle and the ancient storyteller Aesop to the early-20th-century time-study engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor, the comic strip "Dilbert," and modern-day business gurus. The diversity of perspectives is inspiring and helps--together with Ciulla's own interpretations and clear, precise prose--create a thought-provoking and stimulating look at the nature of work. --S. Ketchum

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    A wide-ranging look at the allure and changing significance of work.With seductions, misunderstandings, and misinformation everywhere, this immensely readable book calls for a new contract--with ourselves.

    Drawing from history, mythology, literature, pop culture, and practical experience, Ciulla probes the many meanings of work or its meaninglessness and asks:

    Why are so many of us letting work take over our lives and trying to live in what little time is left?

    What has happened to the old, unspoken contract between worker and employer?

    Why are young people not being disloyal when they regularly consider job-changing?

    Employers can't promise as much to workers as before. Is that because they promise so much to stockholders?

    Why are there mass layoffs and "downsizing" in a time of unequaled corporate prosperity? And why are the most common lies in business about satisfactory employee performance?

    The traditional contract between employers and employees is over. This thoughtful and provocative study shows how to replace it by the one we make with ourselves.

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    5 out of 5 stars Eye-opening, informative, enjoyable........2007-07-06

    Ciulla covers a broad range of topics dealing with work -- its meaning throughout history, workplace ideologies/culture (i.e., how to get workers to want to do what they'd ordinarily rather not), the end of workplace loyalty, how we determine what is meaningful work, etc. -- and she does so in a very readable way. This book will likely make you think about the work choices you have made and have yet to make, and although it's not a practical, how-to-get-the-job-you-love type of book (nor is it meant to be), it will give you a broader perspective that will arm you to make wiser decisions. Regardles of whether you use the information to ruminate about your work life or make decisions or not, it's an enjoyable, informative, and sometimes eye-opening read.

    4 out of 5 stars Employer manipulation and arbitrariness (4.25*s).......2007-06-21

    Never at any time in our past have work and workplaces been such an integral part of our lives - often forming our very identities. Because of the centrality of work in our lives, the author conducts a wide-ranging examination of work including basic definitions and a brief historical look even to ancient times, its potential for providing meaning to our lives, and the control that employers have over the nature of work and the organization of workplaces.

    As the author points out, work was once under the control of craftsmen, who worked to produce a complete product irrespective of the specific time needed. With the industrial revolution that manner of working was completely undermined as factory owners gained control by breaking manufacturing into a sequence of simplistic, timed steps to be performed by workers with minimal training, in essence bypassing skilled craftsmen. But the high-speed, dead-end nature of that work was problematical, resulting in massive turnover and no commitment on the part of employees, not to mention the formation of unions. Employers in the 1920s began a counter offensive by adopting a human relations approach geared to inducing willing compliance to perform deadening jobs. As part of that approach, businesses provided increased benefits for employees. Consumerism was promoted as the means to produce the meaning in lives lacking in the workplace. Employers have in more recent times pushed such initiatives as creating a family-like corporate culture (IBM), work teams for purposes of employee participation and empowerment, and promoting total quality management (TQM) to closely bind workers to companies and their agendas, especially white-collar workers. Many social critics, including C. Wright Mills, view these programs as mere manipulation of employees, creating conforming, compliant organization men.

    There was the assumption that corporate and employee interests were one and the same and that loyalty and trust best described the new employment relationship. The superficiality of this new social compact was brought home in a devastating manner beginning in the early 1990s as corporations supposedly under the dictates of global markets unceremoniously shed thousands of loyal employees. These newly downsized companies were said to be re-engineered - more management speak for unilateral actions. Employee empowerment turned out to be a cynical ploy to be discarded at the first convenient opportunity.

    Given the utter lack of concern on the part of employers to providing long-term employment, the author chides those who continue to look to places of employment to provide the fulfillment normally provided by family, friends, and communities. She notes that unions are the only the workplace organizations that have ever provided a basis for fairness and justice in contrast to the informality of implied agreements easily withdrawn by management.

    The book is disappointing because having clearly assessed the state of employment in the US, the author does virtually nothing in recommending change, other than to state the obvious that employers are unreliable in terms of providing security and meaning. At the least, she could have outlined the European approach of works councils and active employment policies. European workers long ago realized that employers cannot be allowed to act with impunity when their economic well-being is at stake. The American system of employers arbitrarily turning workers' lives upside down with no avenue for effective worker input is unconscionable.

    The book is a well-written, lively overview of the state of working in America. She notes others have described the internals of workplaces, most notably the Dilbert cartoons. She also notes the lack of community among workers, who prefer to adopt cynical self-coping approaches to modern work instead of collaborating to change it. In the face of the obvious employer disregard for employee well-being, the passivity of American workers is baffling.

    5 out of 5 stars Excellent book.......2006-10-15

    Prof. Ciulla tackles this central component of Life from different directions. The book will make you think and maybe even change your preferences in life.

    5 out of 5 stars Makes use of myriad areas to exemplify values and attitudes.......2005-05-28

    This book explores the over-worked state of Americans today and why people work at all. The author helps readers discover the values and attitudes expressed in their jobs using history, literature, popular culture, and personal anecdotes. Many good insights.

    4 out of 5 stars A more optimistic 'Nickel and Dimed".......2001-11-29

    Sciulla's book avoids policy conclusions, and other theoretical certainties as other books like Fogels' 4th Awakening. She notes the interesting point that "Today, clock time measures events" in the past events measured time. For example, in Magadascar a half hour was measured by the time it took to cook rice. She became interested in the nature of work when she subsidised one job teaching philosophy with another as a waitress in a restaurant. Ms. Ciulla is particularly struck by the fact thatt wealth has not brought happiness. People continue to want to earn a living. Even when people have enough to live on, many of them continue to want to work, remaining perplexed at the fact that while life is supposed to be easier, many continue to seek meaning through employment. However, she notes, employment provides a schedule and a rythm for daily life and serves as an outlet ofr greater forms of community participation.
    Ethics in Modern Management
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      Ethics in Modern Management
      Gerald J. Williams
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      This book confronts business managers with media accounts of alleged ethical misconduct by business people and the low opinion the public has of the honesty of business people in general. Gerald J. Williams agrees that greed and self-interest are surely at work here, but he points out that these vices can be found in just about every area of human endeavor. He asks whether business people might think there is some special characteristic of the business enterprise that sometimes justifies acting in ways that would be considered immoral if they were done in nonbusiness situations. Does the impact, for instance, that a business may have on the economic welfare of its shareholders, employees, and the social and political communities in which it operates sometimes require its managers to follow a "double ethic," one that applies to their business lives but not to their private lives? Not so, according to the author, who argues that there is no such thing as "business ethics"; there are only ethical principles applicable to all circumstances and conditions of human life. It is Williams' belief that only business people can restore their tarnished reputation by acting ethically, but that they have to first know something about moral theory and understand how different theoretical approaches to morality may yield different moral principles. Business people need to reflect on the set of moral principles they hold, conscientiously satisfy themselves that they are comfortable with those principles, and, if not, modify them and apply them consistently in both business and nonbusiness situations. This book is designed to help managers with the process of education and moral reflection by describing three approaches to morality: cultural moral relativism, utilitarianism, and Thomistic natural law. The book then goes on to show how each approach can address and attempt to solve concrete, real-life ethical conflicts in the business world. In short, the book offers a somewhat unique hands-on technique for teaching business ethics. It should interest business managers at all levles as well as teachers and students of business ethics.
      Without Authority (International Kierkegaard Commentary)
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        Without Authority (International Kierkegaard Commentary)

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        Teachers Behaving Badly?: Dilemmas for School Leaders
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          Teachers Behaving Badly?: Dilemmas for School Leaders
          Kate Myers
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          Teachers Behaving Badly? is concerned about sexual behaviour that may occur between adults working in and connected to the school, and teacher/older pupil relations, initiated by both parties. Leaders faced with trying to sort out these issues find that they are not always clear-cut. Often there are no easy resolutions and the consequences may be potentially explosive for the individuals concerned, for the school, and for the community.

          Against the Tide: The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Management
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            Against the Tide: The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Management
            S. K. Chakraborty
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            Chronicles From the Planet Business: An Eyewitness Account of the Crimes, Passions, Madness, and Downright Stupidity of Modern Business
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            Chronicles From the Planet Business: An Eyewitness Account of the Crimes, Passions, Madness, and Downright Stupidity of Modern Business
            Barry J. Gibbons
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            Get Ready. You are about to blast off into outer space. Destination: Planet Business. Business is a planet of its own. A world of alien beings and irrational forces never before so insightfully or brutally chronicled as in Barry Gibbons new book Chronicles from the Planet Business. In this book, Gibbons takes you on a dizzying ride through the world of business. Along the way, you will meet up with Czar Nicholas and his doomed family, WWII flying aces, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein, Monty Python, Bill Gates, Mother Theresa, Sam Walton, Michael Jordan and many others. You will also learn the real truth about the Trojan Horse, Zippergate, George W. Bushs missing years in Lubbock, TX., frequent flyer miles, the EU, the International Olympic Committee, dating and more.

            No one is better suited and more able to poke fun at the world of business than Barry Gibbons, the former CEO of Burger King and enlightened capitalist. This book proves once and for all that business is stupid — how else to explain Arch Deluxe, downsizing, the EU, Al Dunlap, New Coke, Motorola and dress down Fridays.

            What readers have to say about Barry Gibbons:

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            "The humor bites with common sense…" D. Noonan, San Francisco, California

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            5 out of 5 stars Don't cry for me Miami.......2000-04-18

            Don't cry for me Miami......For I am privileged to enjoy in one banquet what you enjoyed as a 3 year serving of hors d'oeuvres from the pen of Barry Gibbons. A unique ramble of the brightest wit in business, the collection of articles appearing in the Miami Herald over a three year period is a scalpel of precision in viewing the modern business scene.

            Hidden on page 131 is one of the most powerful keys to organizational leadership uncovered by Gibbons for all of us. Read on and uncover your own truths wrapped in wit and wisdom.

            5 out of 5 stars Don't cry for me Miami.......2000-04-18

            Don't cry for me Miami......For I am privileged to enjoy in one banquet what you enjoyed as a 3 year serving of hors d'oeuvres from the pen of Barry Gibbons. A unique ramble of the brightest wit in business, the collection of articles appearing in the Miami Herald over a three year period is a scalpel of precision in viewing the modern business scene.

            Hidden on page 131 is one of the most powerful keys to organizational leadership uncovered by Gibbons for all of us. Read on and uncover your own truths wrapped in wit and wisdom.
            Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
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              Creating a World Without Poverty: How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
              Muhammad Yunus
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              The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today.

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              Drug Testing: Issues and Options
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                Drug Testing: Issues and Options

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                From workplace to school, from professional sports to the armed services, the advent of drug-testing procedures has stirred debate and controversy. Although designed to detect and thereby curtail the use of illicit drugs, this well-intentioned procedure involves difficult issues which require informed decision making. In this thought-provoking and practical book, Robert Coombs and Louis Jolyon West introduce readers to the complex world of drug testing. Written in nontechnical language for those concerned with substance abuse issues, the authors explore drug-testing methodology and offer guidelines for selecting the appropriate screening techniques. The questions concerning "voluntary" testing, individual rights-of-privacy, and the psychological effects of mandatory testing are also discussed. Separate chapters are devoted to testing in the military, in athletics, and in private industry. Other topics include the politics of drug-testing and the treatment and counseling of drug abusers. This fascinating and important work offers crucial information for policymakers, parents, employers and employees, and will be of particular value to those who are or will be the subjects of drug screening. By telling the story of drug testing, this book enlightens and clarifies the national debate.

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