@article{2010:hanson:william_wh,
title = {William Whyte’s ‘The Organization Man’: A Flawed Central Concept but a Prescient Narrative},
year = {2010},
note = {William H Whyte’s concept of organization man is now used in
bowdlerised form, shorn of its polemical core. It was an appeal
against the situation of people in the big organiations taking shape
after World War Two, belonging to the organization rather than simply
working for it, earning rewards that are also, in the end, traps. In
the current worlds of agile organizations with serially loyal staff
these people no longer exist, and in fact the only group that fits the
Whyte pattern are dedicated priests. At the same time, the polemic is
never more relevant than today because we live in a world in which we
are closely surveilled on many levels using ever more sophisticated
technology, and in which many human resource management practices
increase the power of organization over individual. William Whyte’s
time has come.},
journal = {mrev management revue},
pages = {95--104},
author = {Hanson, Dallas and O’Donohue, Wayne},
volume = {21},
number = {1}
}