Organizational values are a hot topic as private and public organizations are not only evaluated according to their products and profits, but also according to the circumstances of the product -- labor conditions, materials, risks, human rights and social responsibility. Values are becoming the defining identity of organizations. This book covers this shift.
Author(s): Ole Thyssen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 262
Contents......Page 6
Introduction: The Philosophy of Organizational Values......Page 8
Part I: Society......Page 14
1 Functional Subsystems......Page 16
Communication and code......Page 17
Symbolic generalized media......Page 21
The market......Page 22
Notes......Page 33
Forms of compulsion of the market......Page 36
Notes......Page 44
3 Growth as Inflation of Demands......Page 46
The development of new demands......Page 49
Individualization......Page 51
Victimization......Page 52
Notes......Page 55
Part II: Organization......Page 56
The organization as a system of decisions......Page 58
The decision......Page 60
Management......Page 64
Decisions and the basis of decisions......Page 67
Frames, schemes and scripts......Page 69
Notes......Page 72
Organization, institution and company......Page 75
Four systems......Page 76
Notes......Page 93
Part III: Value......Page 98
What is a value?......Page 100
The disintegration of a shared value base......Page 106
Types of values......Page 111
Notes......Page 120
Hard and soft values......Page 122
The moral sensibility......Page 123
The social basis of values......Page 126
Notes......Page 141
8 Changing Values of Work......Page 144
Flexibility and lifelong learning......Page 145
Implications for management......Page 147
What is learning?......Page 149
Loyalty and disloyalty......Page 153
Conflicting values......Page 155
Identity and career......Page 157
Wealth or welfare?......Page 160
The compulsion towards work: the social responsibility of the organization......Page 165
Notes......Page 166
What is a stakeholder?......Page 168
Irreconcilable demands......Page 170
Strategy and ethics......Page 174
Stakeholder strategies......Page 178
Notes......Page 188
10 From Values to Morals to Ethics......Page 192
The moral complex......Page 196
Morality......Page 202
The privatization of morals: moral resources......Page 204
Ethics......Page 206
Resources for agreement......Page 210
The value base......Page 216
Notes......Page 219
11 Values and Accounting......Page 221
'Plan or be planned'......Page 222
Means and ends......Page 224
Defining values......Page 226
Value strategies......Page 229
Measuring values......Page 230
Ethical accounting......Page 232
Notes......Page 241
12 Beautiful Lies – Values in Practice......Page 243
The necessary hypocrisy......Page 245
Necessary illusions and strategic truths......Page 247
Values: visibility and consequence......Page 250
Measuring values......Page 251
Values and rules......Page 252
Conclusion: values as focus areas......Page 254
Notes......Page 255
C......Page 256
F......Page 257
L......Page 258
O......Page 259
R......Page 260
V......Page 261
W......Page 262
