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Title

The old dispensation : loyalty in business / John J. Clancy.

Author

Clancy, John J. (John Joseph), 1937-

Publication

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury : Associated University Presses, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• The Old Dispensation is the story of loyalty lost, the fading of the loyalty to organizations once so characteristic of American life. John J. Clancy asks the basic questions: Why? What has happened to the economy, the culture, to American management practices so that loyalty is waning or gone? How did loyalty emerge in the first place? Was there a time when corporate loyalty was waxing? In this work, Clancy essays a "natural history" of loyalty, the causes of its flowering, and its demise.
• The story is told with a rich mixture of economics, management theory, historical accounts, public opinion poll data, Clancy's own survey data, and, particularly, the words of Clancy's subjects, employees of a rather typical high-technology company.
• This is a cautionary tale. Although some observers - and some of Clancy's subjects - have celebrated the new social character and the new independence of American workers, Clancy argues that the erosion of mutual trust, the growing moral isolation of Americans, is a risk to them, to society, and to the corporation.

Alternative Title

Loyalty in business

Subjects

• Business ethics > History > 20th century
• Employee loyalty > History > 20th century
• Corporate reorganizations > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-334) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. The Old Dispensation: The Oldest Cohort. 1. Introduction. 2. The Old Dispensation Speaks. 3. Social and Historical Conditioning: The Great Depression. 4. Social and Historical Conditioning: The Forties and Fifties. 5. The Heart of All the Virtues: Loyalty -- Pt. 2. Between Two Worlds: The Middle Cohort. 6. The Baby Boomers: Cohort 2. 7. "The Long Unraveling, the Fresh Start" 8. The Sixties: Economy and Management Practices -- Pt. 3. "All Wars Fought, All Faiths in Man Shaken": The Youngest Cohort. 9. The New Generation: The Seventies. 10. The Shipwreck of Welfare Corporatism. 11. The Old Dispensation Withers Away -- Pt. 4. Conclusions. 12. The Natural History of Loyalty. 13. Consequences: The Old Dispensation's Demise.

ISBN

0838637930

LCCN

98007073

OCLC

ocm38908705

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries