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• William Whyte's 'the Organization Man': A Flawed Central Concept but a Prescient Narrative**

IWilliam H Whyte's concept of organization man is now used in bowdlerized form, shorn of its polemical core. It was an appeal against the situation of people in the big organizations taking shape after World War Two, belonging to the organization rather than simply working for it, earning rewards that are also, in the end, traps. In the current worlds of agile organizations with serially loyal staff these people no longer exist, and in fact the only group that fits the Whyte pattern are dedicated priests. At the same time, the polemic is never more relevant than today because people live in a world in which they are closely surveilled on many levels using ever more sophisticated technology, and in which many human resource management practices increase the power of organization over ind...

... then became associate editor of Fortune magazine, in the very belly of the capitalist beast. Whyte ... company, and Alan with a US-based global computer technology corporation. Steven was the most dedica...Work/life balance and personal development initiatives are promoted, but these be...

• Management Revue
• Band 21 Nr. 1, Januar 2010

• Liability for Asbestos Related Disease in England and Germany

... consider if faced with asbestos-related personal injury claims2. Before getting to these regimes an... been commenced, on 3 September 2001 the magazine Der Spiegel reported on a case that had been fil... have been compiled at a time when modern computer systems were still in the realm of imagination. In...

• Mondaq Business Briefing
• Germany Law Articles in English