Description
In this volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars investigate the changing attitudes towards management decisions in today’s workplace. Across a variety of areas traditionally reserved for managerial authority – employee hiring and firing, corporate takeovers and plant closings – managers face an increased likelihood of public and legal scrutiny of their decisions and decision-making processes. Formal procedures, decision-making criteria and the use of legal rhetoric within organizations are all addressed in the book. Introduction – Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies Preface – Mark G Yudof PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT Law and Organizations – W Richard Scott The Legalization of Organizations – Sim B Sitkin and Robert J Bies A Multi-Theoretical Perspective PART TWO: LEGALISTIC PROCEDURES Cops and Auditors – John Van Maanen and Brian T Pentland The Rhetoric of Records Contracting Without Contracts – Michael J Smitka How the Japanese Manage Organizational Transactions Effects of Legal Context on Decision Making Under Ambiguity – Martha S Feldman and Alan J Levy PART THREE: LEGALISTIC CRITERIA IN DECISION MAKING Stigma as a Determinant of Legalization – Nancy L Roth, Sim B Sitkin and Ann House The Threat of Legal Liability and Managerial Decision Making – Donna M Randall and Douglas D Baker Regulation of Reproductive Health in the Workplace Law, Privacy, and Organizations – Mary J Culnan, H Jeff Smith and Robert J Bies The Corporate Obsession to Know Versus the Individual Right Not to Be Known The Changing Legal Environment – Idalene F Kesner and Jeffrey B Kaufmann A Review and Recommendations for Today’s Corporate Directors PART FOUR: LEGALISTIC RHETORIC Communication Under Conditions of Litigation Risk – Larry D Browning and Robert Folger A Grounded Theory of Plausible Deniability in the Iran-Contra Affair The Consequences of Language – Randall K Stutman and Linda L Putnam A Metaphorical Look at the Legalization of Organizations Reducing the Litigious Mentality by Increasing Employees’ Desire to Communicate Grievances – Debra L Shapiro and Deborah M Kolb PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS ON THE LEGALISTIC ORGANIZATION The Costs of Legalization – Jeffrey Pfeffer The Hidden Dangers of Increasingly Formalized Control Litigation Mentality and Organizational Learning – Chris Argyris
