William H Whyte: Organization Man

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"The Organization Man is one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. It established the categories Americans now use when thinking about the workplace, the suburbs, and their lives."--David Brooks, senior editor at the Weekly Sta

Über den Autor

William H. Whyte (1917-1999) was editor of Fortune magazine and Distinguished Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous books of social and environmental analysis, including The Last Landscape, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Joseph Nocera, Fortune magazine executive editor, is an award-winning financial journalist. He is the author of A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class, which won the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, and he anchored the 1997 PBS Frontline documentary "Betting on the Market." Jenny Bell Whyte, a fashion designer, is credited with introducing African textiles to the mainstream American clothing market. Her current company, Museum Pieces to Wear, restores old textiles and incorporates them into new clothes. She and William H. Whyte were married in 1964.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Joseph Nocera
PART I. THE IDEOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION MAN
1. Introduction
2. Decline of the Protestant Ethic
3. Scientism
4. Belongingness
5. Togetherness
PART II. THE TRAINING OF ORGANIZATION MAN
6. A generation of Bureaucrats
7. The Practical Curriculum
8. Business Influence on Education
9. The Pipe Line
10. The "Well-Rounded" Man
PART III. THE NEUROSES OF ORGANIZATION MAN
11. The Executive: Non-Well-Rounded Man
12. 12. The Executive Ego
13. Checkers
PART IV. THE TESTING OF ORGANIZATION MAN
14. How Goon an Organization Man Are You?
15. The Tests of Conformity
PART V. THE ORGANIZATION SCIENTIST
16. The Fight against Genius
17. The Bureaucratization of the Scientist
18. The Foundations and Projectism
PART VI. THE ORGANIZATION MAN IN FICTION
19 Love That System
20. Society As Hero
PART VII. THE NEW SUBURBIA: ORGANIZATION MAN AT HOME
21. The Transients
22. The New Roots
23. Classlessness in Suburbia
24. Inconspicuous Consumption
25. The Web of Friendship
26. The Outgoing Life
27. The Church of Suburbia
28. The Organization of Children
29. Conclusion
Afterword, by Jenny Bell Whyte
Appendix: How to Cheat on Personality Tests
Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2002
Fachbereich:	Management
Genre:	Importe , Wirtschaft
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780812218190
ISBN-10:	0812218191
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Whyte, William H
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	University of Pennsylvania Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	208 x 148 x 33 mm
Von/Mit:	William H Whyte
Erscheinungsdatum:	27.06.2002
Gewicht:	0,72 kg