| Description |
x, 389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sim B. Sitkin and Robert J. Bies -- Preface / Mark G. Yudof -- Pt. I. Introduction and Theoretical Context. 1. Law and Organizations / W. Richard Scott. 2. The Legalization of Organizations: A Multi-Theoretical Perspective / Sim B. Sitkin and Robert J. Bies -- Pt. II. Legalistic Procedures. 3. Cops and Auditors: The Rhetoric of Records / John Van Maanen and Brian T. Pentland. 4. Contracting Without Contracts: How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions / Michael J. Smitka. 5. Effects of Legal Context on Decision Making Under Ambiguity / Martha S. Feldman and Alan J. Levy -- Pt. III. Legalistic Criteria in Decision Making. 6. Stigma as a Determinant of Legalization / Nancy L. Roth, Sim B. Sitkin and Ann House. 7. The Threat of Legal Liability and Managerial Decision Making: Regulation of Reproductive Health in the Workplace / Donna M. Randall and Douglas D. Baker |
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8. Law, Privacy, and Organizations: The Corporate Obsession to Know Versus the Individual Right not to Be Known / Mary J. Culnan, H. Jeff Smith and Robert J. Bies. 9. The Changing Legal Environment: A Review and Recommendations for Today's Corporate Directors / Idalene F. Kesner and Jeffrey B. Kaufmann -- Pt. IV. Legalistic Rhetoric. 10. Communication Under Conditions of Litigation Risk: A Grounded Theory of Plausible Deniability in the Iran-Contra Affair / Larry D. Browning and Robert Folger. 11. The Consequences of Language: A Metaphorical Look at the Legalization of Organizations / Randall K. Stutman and Linda L. Putnam. 12. Reducing the Litigious Mentality by Increasing Employees' Desire to Communicate Grievances / Debra L. Shapiro and Deborah M. Kolb -- Pt. V. Reflections on the Legalistic Organization. 13. The Costs of Legalization: The Hidden Dangers of Increasingly Formalized Control / Jeffrey Pfeffer. 14. Litigation Mentality and Organizational Learning / Chris Argyris |
| Summary |
The Legalistic Organization brings together first-rate scholars from a variety of disciplines (law, sociology, management, economics, communication, and political science) to investigate this phenomenon from the perspectives of formal procedures, decision-making criteria, and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations |
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This extraordinary volume also emphasizes the implications for organizational learning and change and stresses the implications for legal scholarship, public policy, and management practice. Scholars and students of organizational behavior, human resource management, public policy, and law will find The Legalistic Organization an invaluable resource for studying this important and growing trend |
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In today's workplace, managers are being confronted with what many perceive as a growing "litigation mentality." Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority - such as employee hiring and firing, plant closings, and corporate takeovers - managers are facing an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes |
| Analysis |
Organisational behaviour |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Associations, institutions, etc. -- Law and legislation.
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Decision making.
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Juristic persons -- Psychological aspects.
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Organizational behavior.
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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| Author |
Bies, Robert J.
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Sitkin, Sim B.
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| LC no. |
93041636 |
| ISBN |
0803948638 (cl.) |
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0803948646 (paperback) |
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