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I've really enjoyed being part of the team environment and I'm learning a lot during the time I've spent here. I can see why he is on the verge of fighting Tyson Fury. As new information circulates regarding Whyte challenging Tyson Fury for the WBC and Ring Magazine world heavyweight titles, Whyte's immediate concern is getting past the challenge of Wallin. Rate this book. The Organization Man William H. Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society.
During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies--television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food--and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family.
William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status.
Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends.
In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market.
This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. Nonfiction Sociology Business Psychology More Details. Whyte 15 books 43 followers. William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte - 12 January was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher. An early graduate of St. In he joined Fortune magazine. While working with the New York City Planning Commission in , Whyte began to use direct observation to describe behavior in urban settings.
With research assistants wielding still cameras, movie cameras, and notebooks, Whyte described the substance of urban public life in an objective and measurable way. These observations developed into the Street Life Project , an ongoing study of pedestrian behavior and city dynamics, and eventually to Whyte's book called City: Rediscovering the Center City presents Whyte's conclusions about jaywalking, 'schmoozing patterns,' the actual use of urban plazas, appropriate sidewalk width, and other issues.
This work remains valuable because it's based on careful observation, and because it contradicts other conventional wisdom, for instance, the idea that pedestrian traffic and auto traffic should be separated. His books include: Is Anybody Listening? Search review text. It was to be read before starting my freshman year in college. I don't think I got much out of it.
Although I had had good marks in high school, I came from a small town in the Midwest. My classmates in college were mostly from big high schools in the east. Some of them may have been sophisticated enough to see what Whyte was talking about, or more likely just recognized their own fathers from his narrative.
My dad was a school teacher in that small town, hence had nothing in common with Whyte's Organization Man; and hence I really didn't know what he was talking about, I suppose.
It was a long time ago. The other thing was, one had to have something of a grown-up point of view to take in a book like this, it certainly wasn't written for kids. But when I entered college, I was a kid. I learned about grown-up outlooks, things of real interest to adults, how to be an adult in college. Kids in, adults or, adults-on-the-way out.
That was college for me. Terri Griffith. Author 3 books 2 followers. I bookmooched this just to read a couple of chapters on a Chicago suburb called Park Forest. I started reading somewhere in the middle and became so engrossed that when I finished I started back at the beginning.
On the surface it would appear that a book that discusses the rise of the company businessman white men, all would yield nothing important to my life, but instead this book gave me a glimpse into an America that I never knew first hand yet is still mythologized by the media and Republicans.
Most of the sources are from the 40s and 50s. Also, as contemporary readers we know how it all turned out--how all those suburban kids of the 50s turned into the hippies of the 60s. We also see that this model of business, an employee faithful to a company for an entire career, faded away.
In fact, the generation that Whyte writes about is really the only one to receive the benefits of a job like this. Some of the companies he writes about ultimately smoked their employees with retirement, downgrades, things like that.
The chapter on the way suburban neighborhoods work is great. Sally Duros. The world has sure changed! It's called The Organization Man.
It was written in by William Whyte, and it's about time that I learned what the book says. When I was a girl, I held a secret deep and true, and that was that somehow even though I was female I would grow up to be an "Organization Man. I wasn't sure what it meant exactly - It was just a book laying around our house - but I knew my dad was one, in my simplistic view because he wore a hat, and a suit, and he went to work downtown every day.
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