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_aHARMON, Michael M. _94614 |
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_aDecisionism and action : _bchanging perspectives in organization theory |
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_aNew York : _bMarcel Dekker, _c1998 |
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| 520 | 3 | _aThe neglect of moral discourse in mainstream organization theory during the past four decades may be attributed to the dominance of the decision, popularized by Herbert Simon, as the field's primary unit of analysis. Underwritten by an epistemology derived from the logical positivists' analytical distinction between value and fact, the idea of decision has come to be uncritically accepted as a morally neutral and empirically self-evident beginning point for organizational analysis. The ethnomethodological writings of Harold Garfinkel, coupled with insights from contemporary philosophy of language, radically challenge the value-fact distinction, pointing to an epistemology of everyday life in which value and fact are initially fused. The inherent fusion of value and fact provides the basis for an alternative epistemology for organization theorytermed the action or process perspectivewhich fundamentally alters the empirical understanding of organizational life and, consistent with the writings of Mary Parker Follett, enables the recovery of organization theory's moral center. | |
| 520 | 3 | _aCommenting on the effects of technology on modern consciousness, Manfred Stanley has noted that: | |
| 520 | 3 | _aOf all the upheavals of history and culture, it is difficult to imagine any of greater scope than the decline and fall not of some one vision of the good, but of the good itself. The rise of the notion that there is no such phenomenon as the good in the objective nature of things must be the most ironic anticlimax possible to centuries of bitter conflict between those who felt themselves empowered to define it.(1) | |
| 520 | 3 | _aFor Stanley, the problem is not technology as such, but technicism: the implicit, even unconscious, belief that the humanly possible is synonymous with the technologically available. In technicist consciousness, technology is no longer a means for attaining the good, because means presupposes a prior moral or practical end in whose service that means is applied. Should any conception of the good be embraced at all, he argues, it ironically can merely be an artifact of what has been made available by technology. | |
| 520 | 3 | _aTechnicism has become the predominant attribute of modern consciousness, producing what William Barrett, speaking in a slightly different context, calls the illusion of technique.(2) | |
| 520 | 3 | _aIn the collective infatuation with technology, Barrett argues, ... we have come to regard it [technology] as the source for the discovery of human meaning. The tragic consequence of this is the inevitable alienation of man from himself and his estrangement from others. The irony of technicism to which Stanley alluded earlier may be summarized as a reversal of a familiar aphorisminvention has now become the mother of necessityalbeit one devoid of moral content. | |
| 520 | 3 | _aStanley sees the rise of technicism as concomitant with the emergence of liberal society, whose institutions have achieved coherence and legitimacy explainable in terms of three themes that have dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. The first is the general desanctification or secularization of the political economy exemplified ... in the transformation of human skills and the earth itself into objective commodity resources for commercial production.(3) The second theme is the ascendancy of the market principle as the chief basis of socioeconomic organization, wherein interests are privately held by individuals rather than shared by communities or other larger collectivities. Finally, there is the theme of pluralistic representation in political decision making, where the expression of individual (and group) interest is tolerated in the hope of achieving a balance among them. | |
| 520 | 3 | _aTaken together these themes have produced a pervasive sense of nihilism in Western society insofar as they seem to exclude the possibility of grounding collective standards of value priorities in anything more transcendent than the simplest shared utilities like power, wealth, and the security of one's immediate personal circumstances.(4) | |
| 520 | 3 | _aThe consequence of the three themes of liberal society, profoundly abetted by technicist consciousness, is nothing less than the loss of a sense of common human community in the West(5)and also of the moral possibility of a common, transcendent good. | |
| 590 | _aVolume 21 | ||
| 590 | _aNumbers 6-8 | ||
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_tInternational Journal of Public Administration - IJPA _g21, 6-8, p. 819-838 _dNew York : Marcel Dekker, 1998 _xISSN 01900692 _w |
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