Brandon Ching
PAF 602 (Fall 2008)

Abstract

Denhardt, R. B. (1991). In the Shadow of Organization. Regents Press of Kansas.

Robert Denhardt’s In the Shadow of Organization focuses on the impact of individuals within organizations and how organizational efficiency or rationality is encroaching into our individuality. Modern organizations and organization administration have heavily borrowed principles of rationality and objectivity from the sciences. This has resulted in a one-sided focus of placing the rational goals of the organization above, and often in place of, those of the individual members of the organization. This, according to Jung, inhibits the necessary individualization required by people to become whole and balanced beings. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: abstract, bureaucracy, domination, morality, objectivity, Organization, public administration, rationality, Robert Denhardt