Organizational Values in America - Softcover

William G. Scott was professor of management at the Graduate School of Business, University of Washington. His textbooks in management and organizational theory have gone through multiple editions, and he has authored (with David K. Hart) several books written for a general readership.

“This engaging book emphasizes the importance of the moral character of business managers and executives by exploring the question: How can individuals live virtuously and freely in modern organizations?”—Ken Shelton, Executive Excellence

“[This book] is the quintessential statement of our condition.”—H. George Frederickson, Former President of the American Society for Public Administration

“This is a significant book about the Significant People—and the Insignificant People—with whose destiny it deals.”—Dwight Waldo, Professor of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

“A trenchant and unsettling analysis of the growing absorption of the individual by the organization. A well argued, and not too hopeful last call for reassertion.”—William H. Whyte, Jr., Author of The Organization Man