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The Legalistic Organization

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In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today's workplace. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - employee hiring and firing, corporate takeovers and plant closings - managers face an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes. Formal procedures, decision-making criteria and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations are all addressed in the book.
Introduction - Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies Preface - Mark G Yudof PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT Law and Organizations - W Richard Scott The Legalization of Organizations - Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies A Multi-Theoretical Perspective PART TWO: LEGALISTIC PROCEDURES Cops and Auditors - John Van Maanen and Brian T Pentland The Rhetoric of Records Contracting Without Contracts - Michael J Smitka How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions Effects of Legal Context on Decision Making Under Ambiguity - Martha S Feldman and Alan J Levy PART THREE: LEGALISTIC CRITERIA IN DECISION MAKING Stigma as a Determinant of Legalization - Nancy L Roth, Sim B Sitkin and Ann House The Threat of Legal Liability and Managerial Decision Making - Donna M Randall and Douglas D Baker Regulation of Reproductive Health in the Workplace Law, Privacy, and Organizations - Mary J Culnan, H Jeff Smith and Robert J Bies The Corporate Obsession to Know Versus the Individual Right Not to Be Known The Changing Legal Environment - Idalene F Kesner and Jeffrey B Kaufmann A Review and Recommendations for Today's Corporate Directors PART FOUR: LEGALISTIC RHETORIC Communication Under Conditions of Litigation Risk - Larry D Browning and Robert Folger A Grounded Theory of Plausible Deniability in the Iran-Contra Affair The Consequences of Language - Randall K Stutman and Linda L Putnam A Metaphorical Look at the Legalization of Organizations Reducing the Litigious Mentality by Increasing Employees' Desire to Communicate Grievances - Debra L Shapiro and Deborah M Kolb PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGALISTIC ORGANIZATION The Costs of Legalization - Jeffrey Pfeffer The Hidden Dangers of Increasingly Formalized Control Litigation Mentality and Organizational Learning - Chris Argyris
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