Overview

This sequel to the authors' acclaimed Organizational America reconsiders the central theme of that volume—the unprecedented growth of the modern organization in America and the replacement of American founding values by the values of the modern organization. That book warned that as the modern organization becomes the dominant social and economic reality in American life, influencing everything that individuals do on and off the job, the consequences for the future would be severe. The authors saw an America forced into a path that unimpeded could result in totalitarianism.

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A trenchant and unsettling analysis of the growing absorption of the individual by the organization. A well argued, and not too hopeful last call for reassertion. --William H. Whyte, Jr., Author of <em>The Organization Man</em></p>

A trenchant and unsettling analysis of the growing absorption of the individual by the organization. A well argued, and not too hopeful last call for reassertion. --William H. Whyte, Jr., Author of The Organization Man

<p> A trenchant and unsettling analysis of the growing absorption of the individual by the organization. A well argued, and not too hopeful last call for reassertion. --William H. Whyte, Jr., Author of The Organization Man

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William G. Scott was professor of management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Washington. His textbooks in management and organizational theory have gone through multiple editions, and he has authored (with David K. Hart) several books written for a general readership.

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