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Author Anteby, Michel, 1970- author.

Title Moral gray zones : side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / Michel Anteby
Published Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages) : illustrations
Contents The persistence of organizational gray zones -- The motivations and the setting -- Revisiting social systems in organizations -- The side production of homers in factories -- The Pierreville plant : setting and status divides -- The findings -- Retirement homers : an entry into the community -- Homers gone wrong : delimiting the gray zone -- Shades of homer meanings: occupational variations -- The rise and fall of craftsmanship -- Trading in hidden identity incentives -- The implications -- Organizational gray zones as identity distillers -- Identities, control, and moralities -- Appendix A : Data and methods -- Appendix B : Position in the field
Summary Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated practices--gray zones. When discovered, these transgressions often provoke disapproval; when company materials are diverted in the process, these breaches are quickly labeled theft. Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control
Analysis JSTOR-DDA
Industrial relations Moral and ethical aspects
Organizational behavior Moral and ethical aspects
Homers (Manufactures)
Psychology, Industrial
Group Identity
Aircraft industry France Case studies
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Industrial relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
Homers (Manufactures)
Psychology, Industrial.
Group identity.
Aircraft industry -- France -- Case studies
Psychology, Industrial
Social Identification
group identity.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
Aircraft industry
Group identity
Homers (Manufactures)
Industrial relations -- Moral and ethical aspects
Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
Psychology, Industrial
France
Genre/Form Festschriften
Case studies
Festschriften.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400828883
1400828880
128215799X
9781282157996
Other Titles Moral grey zones
Side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant