Moral Mazes: World of Corporate Managers - Hardcover

Major corporate scandals occur regularly in the U.S.A. and a common feature is the large number of people who participate willingly in them. In this fascinating and disturbing study, Robert Jackall asks how basically good people are persuaded to act dishonestly. He explains how a bureaucratic language designed to dull resistance to wrongdoing has been developed, how the tight chain of command reduces the possibility that someone within the organization will become a whistle blower, and how the bureaucratic organization gangs up to achieve its ends, and fights like a cornered animal for its survival. It is a book for anyone interested in how large organizations function, or concerned with the moral laxity in public life. Readership: students of managerial and business studies, business ethics and business law.

About the Author 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, Commonweal, Science, and Contemporary Sociology. In addition, he co-edited Worker Cooperatives in America with Harry M. Levin.