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Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Bill Harrell. A short summary of this paper. Download Download PDF. Translate PDF. New York: Oxford University Press, sheep and goats? ISBN He argues that such rules constitute the real basis of business ethics. They are understandable only if we grasp both their moral salience R obert Jackall has written an ethnographically rich study of the actual ethics of American corporate life.

Bureaucracy in corporate America has, of course, many agers think, act, and justify their behavior when con- of the elements that Max Weber identified in his notion of fronted with moral questions and dilemmas at work.

Jack- rational-legal authority. However, as Jackall points out, all analyzes these actions structurally, focusing on how the there are also strong elements of another kind of bureau- organization of power, authority, and the pursuit of ca- cracy, the patrimonial sort characteristic of the courts of reers encourage behavior which in other private or com- kings and princes: munity contexts would be considered unacceptable.

How- ever, his analysis indicates both how structure constrains. The tronage and by intrigues and conspiracies among various bulk of the primary data are from a large chemical com- factions to gain the favor of the ruler and the perquisites pany and the conglomerate that is its parent corporation, that accompany his good grace, p.

Over In my view, this conceptualization of real American cor- a period of three years, intensive, semi-structured in- porate bureaucracy serves much better than the usual ap- terviews were conducted with managers at every level of proach, which is to qualify Weber's rational-legal type by the companies studied.

He visited the firms often, some- adding to it some "recognition" of the importance of infor- times for as long as a month, had extensive access to both mal relationships and political coalitions.

Jackall's view em- headquarters and manufacturing facilities, and attended phasizes not only the political but the highly personal social events and other informal occasions. A strati- fied group of twelve managers were regularly asked to Authority relationships are personalized, "I work for help interpret materials that Jackall collected, including Bob," "I report to Joe.

Those on top can push down to their subordinates the tedious details. They "manage by objec- Jackall greatly illuminates the moral world of his sub- tives" in the sense that they require tneir subordinates to jects. The resultant picture is not so much ugly as it is fur- achieve certain ends without giving detailed instructions as ther evidence of "the banality of evil. In this way, if the proj- book which deserves to be favorably compared to Rose- ect fails, the boss is absolved from responsibility.

If the beth Kanter's Men and Women of the Corporation, by any- project succeeds, of course, the credit is pullea up. In this environment, success or failure is quences of a world view that has ".