Research Catalog

Title

The cultural work of corporations / Megan Brown.

Author

Brown, Megan (Professor of English)

Publication

New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2009.

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Details

Description

x, 225 pages; 22 cm

Summary

The Cultural Work of Corporations argues that corporate culture- the values, customs, and conventions of a business organization- has altered how workers conduct themselves both inside and outside the workplace. Brown demonstrates that corporate culture is really a means of extending and strengthening work's presence in all aspects of workers' lives, even aspects generally categorized as private.--[book cover].

Subject

• Corporate culture
• Work > Social aspects
• Employees
• Organizational Culture
• Culture organisationnelle
• Travail > Aspect social
• Personnel
• personnel
• Corporate culture
• Employees
• Work > Social aspects
• Unternehmenskultur
• Arbeitnehmer
• Unternehmenskultur
• Arbeitnehmer

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Corporate culture and business studies -- From organization man to liberation management: an examination of individuality and conformity in the workplace -- Survival at work: Flexibility and adaptability in American corporate culture -- Taking care of business: corporate performance, self-care, and the healthy workplace -- Everything to gain: the intensification of corporate progress, presence, and risk -- Students and stakeholders: business writing courses, the maintenance of corporate culture, and the uses of corporate cultural literacy -- Corporate culture out of control?

ISBN

• 9780230618725
• 0230618723

LCCN

2010275322

OCLC

• ocn308174507
• 308174507
• SCSB-8804438

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library