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Description :
Numerous reprehensible corporate, governmental, and nonprofit activities over recent years have highlighted the existence of organizational evil. Unlike other works on the topic, this book fully develops the concept of organizational evil, conceptually weaving the interchange between evil individuals (microlevel) who ultimately create the organizational environment that is evil, and the macrolevel elements of policy, culture, and manipulations of the social environment.
The Foundations of Organizational Evil argues that the existence and maintenance of an evil organization is a complex interaction of individuals, organizations, and environmental factors. The book achieves five distinct objectives: it gives professionals, scholars, and students a broad understanding of evil from a conceptual and practical vantage; it provides a scientific paradigm for interdisciplinary research and theory; it serves as a synthesis linking the divergent, interdisciplinary perspectives on evil into a cohesive whole, making it the seminal work in the field; it provides a better understanding of the potential relationships between organizational evil and various aspects of organizational functioning; and it integrates a philosophical and pragmatic understanding of organizational evil into a coherent approach to management and administration in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.
Content :
Foreword
Introduction
- Part I. The Nature of Organizational Evil
- Evil at Work
- The Dynamics of Administrative Evil in Organizations
- Machiavellians and Organizational Evil
- Evil in Public Administration: A Contrary Perspective
- On the Psychology of Evil in Interpersonal and Corporate Contexts
- Part II. Understanding Organizational Evil
- Power in Organizations: Good vs. Evil
- Holy Evil
- Imagining and Managing Organizational Evil
- For "the Greater Good": Exposing the Parody of Necessary Evil--Exemplars from Organizational Life
- The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa: Understanding Roots of and Responses to Societal Evil
- Unconsciousness and Organizational Evil
- The Four Roots of Organizational Evil
- Part III. Faces of Organizational Evil
- The Evil of Utopia
- The Moral Dimension of Security Outsourcing
- Devolution
- Organizational Systemic Factors of Evil in an Academic University Culture
About the Editor and Contributors
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AARON CHATTERJI
