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Told through the fresh, sharp eyes of new organizational recruits, these sometimes comic, often traumatic, but always vivid and revealing accounts of organizations have much to say to learners and old hands alike. Grouped in sections on `images', `winning and losing' and `survival and injuries', the narratives encompass a wide gamut of themes and issue. These include: power and politics in organizations; organizational cultures and change; gender and discrimination; appearances and realities; leaders and followers; and emotion, motivation and stress. The authors also focus on the coldly competitive features of businesses where processes such as restructuring, rationalization and downsizing are increasingly commonplace. Thro
Who gets the Blame?
Who gets the Blame?
Mistakes are human. What makes them intriguing is the unpredictable relation between a mistake and its effects. A tiny lapse may lead to considerable human, physical and financial costs. Conversely, major blunders may sometimes amount to trivial losses or even unexpected benefits. Numerous types of organizational story are spawned by mistakes. Mistakes can be amusing, especially when committed by pompous individuals who receive a well-deserved comeuppance; they can be tragic if they result in unnecessary suffering and pain. Elsewhere, mistakes can be read as symptomatic of deeper organizational stresses and quandaries, failures in ‘the system’, or internal conflict and demoralization.
One of our first thoughts when hearing of an error is ‘Who is to blame?’ If we happen to ...
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