The empty company: Morality and job security

Personnel Review

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 41-53

  Warren, Richard C ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030504205     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483489610148527     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Handy, C., The Empty Rain Coat: Making Sense of the Future, Hutchinson, London, 1994, p. 39.
2. Bellah, R. et al., The Good Society, A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1991, p. 99.
3. Other commentators taking this view are: Jeremy Rifkin; Tom Peters; Robert Waterman; Peter Senge; Lester Thurlow and Peter Drucker.
4. Kanter, R.M., Men and Women of the Corporation, 2nd ed., Basic Books, New York, NY, 1993, p. 323.
5. JUVOS Cohort Database Central Statistical Office 1996, as reported in the Financial Times, 4 March 1996.
6. The CSO survey (see [5]) tracked a 5 per cent sample of National Insurance numbers since 1982 to show the length between spells of unemployment and the number of times a person has been jobless (see also [7]).
7. Financial Times, "Hot-desking", Financial Times, 19 April 1995.
8. Dennis, N., Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family, IEA, London, 1993.
9. Gray, J., The Undoing of Conservatism, Social Market Foundation, London, 1994.
10. Lasch, C., The Revolt of the Elites, W. Norton, New York, NY, 1995.
11. Etzioni, A., The Spirit of Community, Crown, New York, NY, 1994.
12. Murray, C., In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government, Basic Books, New York, NY, 1988.
13. Fukuyama, F., Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1995.
14. Selbourne, D., The Principle of Duty, Sinclair Stevenson, London, 1994.
15. Gewirth, A., "Common morality and the community of rights", in Outka, G. and Reeder, J.P. (Eds), Prospects for a Common Morality, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1993.
16. Etzioni, A. (Ed.), New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions and Communities, University Press of Virginia, VA, 1995.
17. Sacks, J., Faith in the Future, Darton, Longman & Todd, London, 1995.
18. Durkhiem, E., Professional Ethics and Civic Morals, Routledge, London, 1957.
19. Anthony, P.D., The Foundation of Management, Tavistock, London, 1976, p. 188.
20. MacMurray, J., Persons in Relation, Humanities Press, London, 1960.
21. Selznick, P., The Moral Commonwealth, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1992.
22. Notably in this field: Roethlisberger and Dickson; Donald Roy; Tom Lupton; A.W. Gouldner; C.W. Mills.
23. Dalton, M., Men Who Manage: Fusions of Feeling and Theory in Administration, John Wiley, New York, NY, 1959.
24. Burns, T. and Stalker, G.M., The Management of Innovation, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1961, p. 258.
25. Mahoney, J., "Stakeholder responsibilities: turning the ethical tables", Business Ethics: a European Review, Vol. 3 No. 4, 1994, pp. 212-18.
26. MacIntyre, A., After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Duckworth, London, 1981.
27. Salaman, G., Community and Occupation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1974.
28. Burns, T., The BBC, Macmillan, London, 1977.
29. Watson, T.J., In Search of Management, Routledge, London, 1995, p. 227-8.
30. Dore, R., "What makes the Japanese different", in Crouch, C. and Marquand, D., Ethics and Markets, Blackwell, Oxford, 1994, pp. 66-79.
31. Stewart, R. et al., Managing in Britain and Germany, Macmillan, London, 1995.
32. Heckscher, C., White Collar Blues: Management Loyalties in an Age of Restructuring, Harper Collins, New York, NY, 1995.
33. Institute of Personnel and Development (IPD), People Management in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, IPD, London, 1995.
34. Shonfield, D., The Jobs Mythology, Income Data Services Focus 74, London, 1995, p. 3.
35. Mahoney, J., "Spheres and limits of ethical responsibility in and of the corporation", in Enderle, G. et al. (Eds), People in Corporations, Kulwer, London, 1990, pp. 239-41.
36. White, J.B., "How should we talk about corporations: the languages of economics and citizenship", Yale Law Journal, Vol. 94, 1985, p. 1424.
37. Gregg, P. and Wadsworth, J., "A short history of labour turnover, job tenure and job security, 1973-93", Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 11 No. 1, 1995, p. 15.
38. Reichheld, F.F., The Loyalty Effect: The Hidden Force Behind Growth, Profits and Lasting Value, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 1996.
39. That the effects of downsizing can be destructive to business is evidenced in [40-42].
40. Dougherty, D. and Bowman, E., "The effects of organizational downsizing on product innovation", California Management Review, Vol. 37 No. 4, 1995, pp. 28-43.
41. Bartlett, C. and Ghoshal, S., "Rebuilding behavioral context: turn process reengineering into people rejuvenation", Sloan Management Review, Fall 1995, pp. 11-22.
42. Guest, D. and Mackenzie, K., "Don't write off the traditional career", People Managment, February 1996, pp. 22-5.