Description:
This book is a longitudinal multi-site anthropological study of automatic cotton gin plants, exposing the roots of amoral corporate leadership and explaining recent business scandals by managers' low-moral choices while advancing to top-level jobs. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to management and leadership scholars of all social sciences and for historians, and especially for co-operative scholars. It addresses the topics with regard to sociology and management studies and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of trust, leadership, management, and organisation control.
Review Quotes:
"Management is taught as a discipline, which can be applied in any organization, including those in which the employees are highly skilled and highly trained. In this context the 'in-experienced' manager's tendency is to conceal his ignorance or to assume she has all the answers. This ethnography illustrates this all too frequent behavior but also shows how this difficult situation can be managed with ethics and aplomb. While the context of this study is a Kibbutz in Israel, the situation applies around the world in many different types of organization, from universities, to Information Technology, to health care and professional service firms like lawyers and accountants. This book is a must read for any Human Resources Manager filling such a position or any Manager taking up such a role and perhaps even more importantly, for any Professional managed by someone without your professional expertise." -Roxanne Zolin, Queensland University of Technology, Australia