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The Evolving Corporation: A Humanist Interpretation


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The corporation model of organizations is in terminal decline, says Cook, and is being displaced by what he calls syntagma, a body of persons forming a division of the population of a country. The point he makes by this is that the emerging organization will be no artifact, no fabrication. It will be innately human, and in that sense, organic. His book traces the philosophical and historical development of the modern corporation through Hellenistic-Judeo-Christian theologies, with particular emphases on the social, political, and economic impacts of rationalistic science, impacts such as humanism, democracy, capitalism, and behaviorism. Cook offers an analysis of the critical aspects of the corporation as it exists today, and draws heavily for evidence upon contemporary management theories and practices. In doing so he argues that it is the radical changes going on in society itself that is rendering the traditional corporation obsolete. And, since western civilization is undergoing an epochal shift, the new, emerging corporation can have no resemblance to the old model. He maintains that the organization evolving to replace it will be characterized by common values, mutual purpose, excess capacity, and creative action, and will have two dynamics, what he calls commensuration and essentiality. Only with this kind of human system is it possible to create an organization that solely and exclusively serves the common good. His book is a provocative contribution to the professional and academic literature of several fields, including management, the social sciences, organizational behavior, development, and history, and will be of particular interest as well to certain well informed nonspecialists with concern for the role played the corporation in their societies.

Table of Contents:
At Last Report Introduction The Dualing Philosophies The Dual Ancestry The Corporation's World A Kingdom Divided The Corporation and Hierarchy The Corporation of Rank Order and Position The Corporation and Obedience The Corporation and Isolation The Corporation's Isolation and Depersonalization The Corporation and Communion The Corporation and the Science of Management Old Skins and New Wine The World of the Corporation--Its Religion The Making of Gods The Making of Kings The Making of The God-King Organization The World of the Corporation--Its Science The Myths of Western Civilization The Assertion of Reason The Assertion of Humanism The Assertion of Democracy Democracy and Organization The Making of Capitalism Capitalism and the Corporation The Assertion of Behaviorism Behaviorism and the Nature of the Person Behaviorism and the Nature of Human Reality Behaviorism and the Nature of Human Capacity The Emerging Organization The Passing of Old Orders The Decline of Rationalism The Decline of Materialistic Humanism The Decline of Democracy The Decline of Capitalism The Decline of Behaviorism Aspects of the New Society Words, Meanings, and Systems Explorations and Discovery The Dimensions of Syntagma The Dynamics of Syntagma

About the Author :
WILLIAM J. COOK, JR., is founder and chief executive officer of The Colonial Cambridge Group, a consulting firm in Montgomery, Alabama, that specializes in strategic planning, design, and organization throughout the public and private sectors./e Dr. Cook is the author of several other books and numerous articles, and has had his own daily radio commentary broadcast to more than 70 cities throughout the Southeast.

Review :
?For those interested in understanding the nature of oganization and its future in terms of values, history, and many other prespectives, this is an excellent work that deserves great praise.?-Stern's Management Review/Stern's SourceFinder "For those interested in understanding the nature of oganization and its future in terms of values, history, and many other prespectives, this is an excellent work that deserves great praise."-Stern's Management Review/Stern's SourceFinder


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781567202793
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 352
  • ISBN-10: 1567202799
  • Publisher Date: 30 Aug 2000
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Humanist Interpretation


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