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Introduction: Can Values and Meanings be Outsourced and if so to whom? The Past of Meaning (Lost and Gained in Historical Translations) The Present Tense of Meaning (Underground Passages, The Cunning of Reason and the Return of Virtues) The Future of Meaning (Cultural Revolutions, Social Transformations and the Struggle Between Truths and Democracies Instead of Conclusions: Managerial Philosophies and Mirrors of Organizational Cultures

Organizational change is all around us and it is duly noticed, studied and theorized upon in spite of the fact that it is heavily over-psyched and easily under-socialized. There are many complex reasons and many streams of interwoven contextual constraints, which must be studied in order to understand how we arrived at the present predicament, but it appears that one of the main underlying constellations of causal factors has to do with the spread of formal professional organizations as the privileged way of shaping social processes. To put it in a nutshell: we would like to identify ourselves

Zeitgeist in the Machine or Humanities in the NetThe essay offers a reflection on transformations of contemporary culture in the context of technological revolution and rapid development of cyber reality. It deals particularly with the limits of humanistic cognition. The article provides a critical analysis of contemporary condition of knowledge and academic activities. Nevertheless, crucial function of humanities is recognized on the normative level. To prove his points, author introduces the idea of humanistic management and compares historical developments in various cultural backgrounds.

Komentując krytycznie dwie polemiki (Wagner z Sorokowskim oraz Sztompki z Burawoyem), autor zadaje pytania na temat refleksji zawodowych przedstawicieli świata nauki na temat racjonalności naszych hierarchizacji. Polska socjolożka działająca w Paryżu i Warszawie krytykuje anglocentryczny i północno-amerykański marsz ku karierze, wyznaczany publikacjami w nielicznych czasopismach i w języku angielskim. Psycholog odpowiada, że wszystko jest OK, a warunki współzawodnictwa są ciężkie, ale sprawiedliwe. Autor podziela jej wątpliwości wobec "rankofilii" i głównych mechanizmów ocen wartości wkładów badawczych w karierę własną i rozwój wiedzy naukowej. Solidaryzuje się też z Burawoyem, który krytycznie ocenia globalizację badań socjologicznych pod dyktat rynków i państw, bez należytego uwzględnienia społeczeństw obywatelskich z ich autonomicznymi, a nader istotnymi dla kultury i cywilizacji, interesami

This volume explores the work environment in multinational corporations. To do so, it integrates studies on the organizational sciences, cross-cultural management, positive psychology and sociology within a single comprehensive framework. Twenty-two authors from six countries identify the challenges in multicultural workplaces, the positives of interactions, cultural clashes and their organizational preconditions. They add inter-organizational, institutional and critical perspectives to the analysis within the framework of multinationals and complex, hybrid cultural environments. The book addresses the needs of researchers in the areas of intercultural management, and those of practitioners in international human resource management.