NEW BOOK: The Management of Meaning in Organizations
It has taken millennia but of course finally someone not only found something meaningful in organizations but has set out to discuss the management of it! What happens is the leader of a large organization such as a leading university proclaims that boys are more intelligent than people of the other gender but fail to get better grades since boys get shell-shocked from the bombardment of adolescent hormones? Maybe print media eat him alive while TV news does not notice. After his PR/spin apparatus provides their take on what this is "really" about, media buy it! Social opposition is too easily pacified. This is one of the cases that engaged me in my Euro-colleague Slawomir Magala's [Rotterdam School of Management] smagala@fbk.eur.nl new book "The Management of Meaning in Organizations" (Palgrave, 2009).
Cybercollegially,
Charles Wankel
St. John's University, New York