 A Benefit of the Crash: More Focus on Culture and Engagement at WorkDavid Bowles and
Cary Cooper
Chapter 2 in The High Engagement Work Culture, 2012, pp 20-54 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract They say that “every cloud has a silver lining.” Is there a silver lining to the Crash, one which will help us move forward? We believe there is a huge one: as we have seen on Wall Street, the Crash was like an earthquake which has exposed the fault lines in some of our organizational cultures and forced us to ask questions about how we manage them. If we are smart about what we do with this information, and we have the courage to change, perhaps the probability of the next Crash can be at least lessened, and that would be only the start. When we look at the cultures within our organizations, we cannot help but wonder how they affect day-to-day work life for hundreds of millions of people who work in them. To give just one example, if the “individual is hero,” how does that affect people who might be very good at their jobs but very poor at being “heroes”? Keywords: National Culture; Work Engagement; Management Style; Employee Engagement; Engagement Level (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-02807-5_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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