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Values at Work is an analysis of organisational dynamics with implications in an age of market globalisation. It looks at the challenges businesses face to maintain people-orientated work systems while remaining successful in the larger economy.'

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Cheney's book offers practical guidelines for value-based organizations engaging in today's market, who want to preserve their social integrity. --Organization Studies Values at Work is an ambitious theoretical and research study.... This is a worthwhile and interesting study, full of bright ideas about the future of work and employee participation. --Peter Ackers, Loughborough University American Journal of Sociology Critically examines how one business... is dealing with external pressures to compete in the global market while working to revive its long-held values of workplace democracy within the new configuration of the customer-centered or market-driven firm. --Journal of Economic Literature Values at Work is a landmark contribution to our knowledge about workplace democracy. The clarity of writing, the richness of data, and the careful analysis make this book a must read for anyone interested in democratic participation in an organizational setting. --Fran ois Cooren, University at Albany, SUNY Management Communication Quarterly In this thoughtful, well-written book Cheney eschews simplistic answers in favor of complex, thoughtful analysis. He raises important questions about the ability of socially conscious companies to operate in a world economy dominated by an ethos of unbridled competition. Rather than adopt a 'good-guys' versus 'bad-guys' approach, the author leaves it to the reader to weigh the long term consequences of unchecked economic development. --Choice Cheney has identified a deadly fascinating dilemma: Mondrag n's executives feel that they must grow or die: either meet and match foreign competition or be overwhelmed.... Cheney renders a valuable service by bringing new systemic concerns to the attention of the scholarly community and Mondragon leadership and by uncovering the process by which success and growth in any organization may ultimately corrupt its purpose and values. --Jacquelyn Yates, Kent State University International Journal of Politics and Ethics

Cheney's book offers practical guidelines for value-based organizations engaging in today's market, who want to preserve their social integrity. --Organization Studies Critically examines how one business... is dealing with external pressures to compete in the global market while working to revive its long-held values of workplace democracy within the new configuration of the customer-centered or market-driven firm. --Journal of Economic Literature Values at Work is a landmark contribution to our knowledge about workplace democracy. The clarity of writing, the richness of data, and the careful analysis make this book a must read for anyone interested in democratic participation in an organizational setting. --Francois Cooren, University at Albany, SUNY Management Communication Quarterly In this thoughtful, well-written book Cheney eschews simplistic answers in favor of complex, thoughtful analysis. He raises important questions about the ability of socially conscious companies to operate in a world economy dominated by an ethos of unbridled competition. Rather than adopt a 'good-guys' versus 'bad-guys' approach, the author leaves it to the reader to weigh the long term consequences of unchecked economic development. --Choice Values at Work is an ambitious theoretical and research study.... This is a worthwhile and interesting study, full of bright ideas about the future of work and employee participation. --Peter Ackers, Loughborough University American Journal of Sociology Cheney has identified a deadly fascinating dilemma: Mondragon's executives feel that they must grow or die: either meet and match foreign competition or be overwhelmed.... Cheney renders a valuable service by bringing new systemic concerns to the attention of the scholarly community and Mondragon leadership and by uncovering the process by which success and growth in any organization may ultimately corrupt its purpose and values. --Jacquelyn Yates, Kent State University International Journal of Politics and Ethics

"""Values at Work is a landmark contribution to our knowledge about workplace democracy. The clarity of writing, the richness of data, and the careful analysis make this book a must read for anyone interested in democratic participation in an organizational setting."" --François Cooren, University at Albany, SUNY ""Management Communication Quarterly"" ""Values at Work is an ambitious theoretical and research study.... This is a worthwhile and interesting study, full of bright ideas about the future of work and employee participation."" --Peter Ackers, Loughborough University ""American Journal of Sociology"" ""Cheney has identified a deadly fascinating dilemma: Mondragón's executives feel that they must grow or die: either meet and match foreign competition or be overwhelmed.... Cheney renders a valuable service by bringing new systemic concerns to the attention of the scholarly community and Mondragon leadership and by uncovering the process by which success and growth in any organization may ultimately corrupt its purpose and values."" --Jacquelyn Yates, Kent State University ""International Journal of Politics and Ethics"" ""Cheney's book offers practical guidelines for value-based organizations engaging in today's market, who want to preserve their social integrity."" -- ""Organization Studies"" ""Critically examines how one business... is dealing with external pressures to compete in the global market while working to revive its long-held values of workplace democracy within the new configuration of the customer-centered or market-driven firm."" -- ""Journal of Economic Literature"" ""In this thoughtful, well-written book Cheney eschews simplistic answers in favor of complex, thoughtful analysis. He raises important questions about the ability of socially conscious companies to operate in a world economy dominated by an ethos of unbridled competition. Rather than adopt a 'good-guys' versus 'bad-guys' approach, the author leaves it to the reader to weigh the long term consequences of unchecked economic development."" -- ""Choice"""

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George Cheney is professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

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