Mismanagement, “Jumpers,” and Morality
Covertly Concealed Managerial Ignorance and Immoral Careerism in Industrial Organizations
Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-24286-2 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-24286-2 (ISBN)
This book is a longitudinal multi-site anthropological study of automatic cotton gin plants, exposing the roots of amoral corporate leadership and explaining recent business scandals by managers’ low-moral choices while advancing to top-level jobs.
Executives’ morality and ethics became major research topics following recent business scandals, but the research missed a major explanation of executives’ immorality: career advancement by "jumping" between firms that causes ignorance of job-pertinent tacit local knowledge, tempting "jumpers" to covertly conceal this ignorance. Generating distrust and ignorance cycles and mismanagement, this choice bars performance-based career advancement and encourages immoral careerism, advancing by immoral subterfuges. Such careerism is a known managerial malady, but explaining its emergence proved challenging as managerial ignorance is covertly concealed as a dark secret on organizations’ dark side by conspiracies of silence.
Managerially educated and experienced, Dr. Shapira achieved a breakthrough by a 5-year semi-native anthropological study of five "jumper"-managed automatic processing plants and their parent firms. This book untangles common ignorance and immoral careerism, concealed as dark secrets by executives who "rode" on the successes of mid-level "jumpers" who high-morally risked their authority and power by admitting ignorance and trustfully learned local tacit knowledge. The opposite choice tendencies accorded power, authority, and status rankings, which made practicing immorality easier the higher one’s position, suggesting that the common "jumping" between managerial careers nurtures immoral executives similar to those exposed in the recent business scandals.
Executives’ morality and ethics became major research topics following recent business scandals, but the research missed a major explanation of executives’ immorality: career advancement by "jumping" between firms that causes ignorance of job-pertinent tacit local knowledge, tempting "jumpers" to covertly conceal this ignorance. Generating distrust and ignorance cycles and mismanagement, this choice bars performance-based career advancement and encourages immoral careerism, advancing by immoral subterfuges. Such careerism is a known managerial malady, but explaining its emergence proved challenging as managerial ignorance is covertly concealed as a dark secret on organizations’ dark side by conspiracies of silence.
Managerially educated and experienced, Dr. Shapira achieved a breakthrough by a 5-year semi-native anthropological study of five "jumper"-managed automatic processing plants and their parent firms. This book untangles common ignorance and immoral careerism, concealed as dark secrets by executives who "rode" on the successes of mid-level "jumpers" who high-morally risked their authority and power by admitting ignorance and trustfully learned local tacit knowledge. The opposite choice tendencies accorded power, authority, and status rankings, which made practicing immorality easier the higher one’s position, suggesting that the common "jumping" between managerial careers nurtures immoral executives similar to those exposed in the recent business scandals.
Reuven Shapira is a Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology and Sociology in The Western Galilee Academic College in Acre, Israel.
1. Practicing Covertly Concealed Managerial Ignorance
2. The Dark Secret of Immoral Careerism of "Jumper" Rotational CCMI User Executives
3. The Concepts of Trust, Leadership, Culture, and Democratic Management
4. Effective Innovative Northern Gin versus Four Mostly Mismanaged Plants
5. Other Negative Processes of Low-Trust "Jumping" Cultures that Furthered Mismanagement
6. Contextualizing Gin Plants’ Mismanagement in the Kibbutz and Israeli Fields
7. Conclusions, Discussion, and Plausible Solutions
| Erscheinungsdatum | 18.06.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Business Ethics |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-24286-9 / 0367242869 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-24286-2 / 9780367242862 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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