Perversions of Democracy

Michael A. Diamond and Seth Allcorn

Chapter 10 in Private Selves in Public Organizations, 2009, pp 159-174 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The workplace is a complex and puzzling milieu to try to understand. Logic and common sense do not always apply. Organizations may possess a culture where work groups and subcultures act in ways that promote communication and effective organizational performance. This may happen by management and workers acknowledging and working with, rather than suppressing and denying, internal differences, new ideas, challenges to the status quo, and conflicts. Within such organizations, plurality, diversity, conflict, and complexity are driven by democratic processes. These processes are supported by a culture that emphasizes cooperation and embraces chaotic properties of emergent direction, institutions, and relationships capable of containing paradox and the uncanny emotions associated with it.

Keywords: Psychological Contract; Public Organization; Democratic Process; Citizen Participation; Psychoanalytic Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230620094_11

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