David Carnevale and Ralph Hummel propose a mixed “knowledge analytic” to deepen the study of trouble in modern organizations beyond the usual suspects. Science and reason are said to require help from art, aesthetics, and judgment to penetrate from precise but shallow understandings to the heart of work as it is practiced from the inside out. The focus here is the art of conceptualization at the level of the worker and the failure of unions to mobilize worker knowledge.
We live in a world of numbers, but numbers have become so dominant that we consider nothing to be real unless it can be measured and mathematized. How did we come to live by the numbers? An answer is offered by Edmund Husserl. By constructing a history of mathematics rooted in the geometry of land surveying, it is possible to point to breaking points showing how it came to be that man is no longer the measure of all things. This provides indicators of typical misuses of measurement to be avoided in management.
Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsPublic Administration: The State of the Discipline. Naomi B. Lynn , Aaron Wildavsky Ralph Hummel and David CarnevaleRalph Hummel Search for more articles by this author and David Carnevale Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 53, Number 3Aug., 1991 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2131589 Views: 4Total views on this site Copyright 1991 University of Texas PressPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.
To be ethical, the member of a modern organization must know what. the work requires of him (or her), what the organization requires of him, and what others require of him. But modern organizations put doing one's job before doing one's work and before one's duty to one's fellow man. Because they do so structurally, the individual usually cannot know what the effect of doing one's duty is on doing a good piece of work or on other human beings. This article attempts to make a beginning to show how far removed the structure of knowledge in modern organization is from constituting the basis for ethical behavior. The means chosen is a phenomeno-logical reconstruction of the ethical field that links the individual to objects, others, and self.
Three successive terms of market-oriented presidents raise difficulties for federal bureaucrats in legitimating past administrative doctrine and practices, which were government-centered. The present article responds to Charles Levine's call for a new administrative doctrine that is more fully descriptive of the needs and routines of today's federal civil servants than a doctrine based on either a liberal or neo-conservative ideology. The author introduces the concept of doctrine into public administration discourse in order to clarify the differences in ideology, doctrine, and practices between an era of top-down liberal progressivism and the era of bottom-up neo-conservative progressivism that dawned with the first Reagan administration. The purpose is to take a first step in describing emerging administrative realities that both traditional bureaucrats and free-marketeers must recognize.
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