Exploring Microeconomics
Author: Robert L Sexton
The 4th Edition of Robert Sexton's Exploring Microeconomics is now available in a modular format. The 4th Edition offers the microeconomics content in 5 modules – in other words, it costs less than a traditional microeconomics text. Buy a product that provides more value for your dollar! You no longer have to buy the same material twice your instructor will not get through during the term. You are no longer paying for unused material—and no longer carrying a heavy text!
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Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank
Author: John R Weeks
When you start a new job, you learn how things are done in the company, and you learn how they are complained about too. Unpopular Culture considers why people complain about their work culture and what impact those complaints have on their organizations. John Weeks based his study on long-term observations of the British Armstrong Bank in the United Kingdom. Not one person at this organization, he found, from the CEO down to the junior clerks, had anything good to say about its corporate culture. And yet, despite all the griping—and despite high-profile efforts at culture change—the way things were done never seemed fundamentally to alter. The organization was restructured, jobs redefined, and processes redesigned, but the complaining remained the same.
As Weeks demonstrates, this is because the everyday standards of behavior that regulate complaints curtail their effectiveness. Embarrass someone by complaining in a way that is too public or too pointed, and you will find your social standing diminished. Complain too loudly or too long, and your coworkers might see you as contrary. On the other hand, complain too little and you may be seen as too stiff or just too strange to be trusted. The rituals of complaint, Weeks shows, have powerful social functions.
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Unpopular Culture | 1 |
| 2 | An Illustration | 14 |
| 3 | Organizational Culture | 31 |
| 4 | Modes and Forms | 57 |
| 5 | Counter Culture | 105 |
| 6 | Lay Ethnography | 137 |
| References | 155 | |
| Index | 163 |
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