| 词条 | The Organization Man |
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| name = The Organization Man | title_orig = | translator = | image = The Organization Man (Hardcover).jpg | caption = Cover of the first edition | author = William H. Whyte | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = Business, management | publisher = Simon & Schuster | pub_date = 1956 | english_pub_date = | media_type = Print | pages = 429 | isbn = 978-0-671-54330-3 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}The Organization Man is a bestselling book by William H. Whyte, originally published by Simon & Schuster in 1956.[1] It is considered one of the most influential books on management ever written.[2] Background and influenceWhile employed by Fortune Magazine, Whyte did extensive interviews with the CEOs of major American corporations such as General Electric and Ford.[3] A central tenet of the book is that average Americans subscribed to a collectivist ethic rather than to the prevailing notion of rugged individualism.[4] A key point made was that people became convinced that organizations and groups could make better decisions than individuals, and thus serving an organization became logically preferable to advancing one's individual creativity. Whyte felt this was counterfactual and listed a number of examples of how individual work and creativity can produce better outcomes than collectivist processes. He observed that this system led to risk-averse executives who faced no consequences and could expect jobs for life as long as they made no egregious missteps. He also thought that everyone should have more freedom. Whyte's book led to deeper examinations of the concept of "commitment" and "loyalty" within corporations.[5] Whyte's book matched the fiction best seller of the period, The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit (1955) by Sloan Wilson in inspiring criticism that those Americans motivated to win World War II returned to an ostensibly less-meaningful lives. Marxist theorist Guy Debord discusses Whyte's observations in The Society of the Spectacle (1967).[6][7] References1. ^Whyte, William H. (1956). The Organization Man. Simon & Schuster, {{ISBN|978-0-671-54330-3}} 2. ^Editors Of Perseus Publishing (2003). The best business books ever: the 100 most influential management books you'll never have time to read. Perseus Books Group, {{ISBN|978-0-7382-0849-7}} 3. ^Mills, C. Wright (December 9, 1956). [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0614FC3B5A137A93CBA91789D95F428585F9 Crawling To the Top.] New York Times 4. ^{{cite news|last1=Williamson|first1=Kevin D.|authorlink=Kevin D. Williamson|title=Why Corporate Leaders Became Progressive Activists|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445705/corporate-leaders-progressive-activists?|accessdate=March 13, 2017|work=National Review|date=March 13, 2017}} 5. ^Randall, Donna M. (1987). [https://www.jstor.org/pss/258513 Commitment and the Organization: The Organization Man Revisited.] The Academy of Management Review 6. ^Debord, Guy (1973). La Société du spectacle. Black & Red 7. ^Need more detail External links
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