Format:
viii, 259 pages
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780316561860
,
9780316421706
,
0316421707
,
031656186X
,
9780316421690
,
0316421693
Content:
"Examines how the ideas of Silicon Valley and its "new oligarchs" have changed work culture, making employees subject to constant change, dehumanizing technologies, and even health risks, and discusses how to restore the social contract between employers and employees."--
Content:
Welcome to your new job -- Introduction: Make a duck -- Misery in the maze. Unhappy in paradise ; The new oligarchs ; A very brief history of management science (and why you shouldn't trust it) ; Who's afraid of Silicon Valley -- Four factors of workplace despair. Building the workforce of the future (or: Sorry, you're old and we'd like you to leave) ; Money: "Garbage at the speed of light" ; Insecurity: "We're a team, not a family" ; Change: "What happens if you live inside a hurricane that never ends?" ; Dehumanization: "Think of yourself as a machine within a machine" -- The no-shit-Sherlock school of management. The battle for the soul of work ; Basecamp: back to basics ; Managed by Q: "Everybody cleans" ; Kapor capital: conscious capitalists ; The social enterprise movement -- Epilogue: Can zebras fix what unicorns have broken?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780316561853
Language:
English
Keywords:
Arbeitsplatz
;
Arbeitsplatzgestaltung
;
Arbeitssoziologie
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Unternehmenskultur
Author information:
Lyons, Daniel 1960-
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