Calvin Morrill

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The Executive Way: Conflict Management in CorporationsPaperback, 1 October 1996

The Executive Way: Conflict Management in Corporations
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Print Length
350 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
1 Oct 1996
ISBN-10
0226538745
ISBN-13
9780226538747

Description

What causes conflict among high-level American corporate executives? How do executives manage their conflicts? Based on candid interviews with over two hundred executives and their support personnel, Calvin Morrill provides an intimate portrait of these men and women as they cope with problems usually hidden from those outside their exclusive ranks.

Personal and corporate scandals, compensation battles, budget worries, interdepartmental rivalries, personal enmities, and general rancor are among everyday challenges faced by executives. Morrill shows what most influences the way managers handle routine conflicts are the cultures created by their company's organizational structure: whether there is a strong hierarchy, a weak hierarchy, or an absence of any strong central authority. The issues most likely to cause conflict within corporations Morrill identifies as managerial style, competition between departments, and performance evaluations, promotions, and compensation.

Among the people whose day-to-day lives we get to know are Jacobs, a divisional executive whose intuitive understanding of the corporate hierarchy enables him to topple his incompetent superior without direct confrontation; Fuller, who through a mix of brains, guile, and connections rises from staff executive secretary to corporate vice president in a large bank; Green, an old-fashioned accounting partner in a firm being taken over by management consultants; and the "Princess of Power, " "Iron Man, " and the "Terminator"--executives fightin their way to the top of a successful entertainment company.

Unprecedented in its direct access to top managers, this portrayal of daily life and conflict management amongcorporate elites will be of interest to professionals, scholars, and practitioners in organizational culture and behavior, managerial decision making, dispute, social control, law and society, and organizational ethnography.

Product Details

Author:
Calvin Morrill
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 October 1996
Dimensions:
22.99 x 14.88 x 1.93 cm
ISBN-10:
0226538745
ISBN-13:
9780226538747
Language:
English
Pages:
350
Weight:
498.95 gm

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