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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Paul Finkelman -- Acknowledgments by Robert McColley -- Introduction by Robert McColley -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- I. YOUTH -- II. VIRGINIAN POLITICS -- III. IN HARNESS -- IV. A CENTRALIZING STATESMAN -- V. VAULTING AMBITION -- VI. YAZOO AND JUDGE CHASE -- VII. THE QUARREL -- VIII. MONROE AND THE SMITHS -- IX. ""A NUISANCE AND A CURSE"" -- X. ECCENTRICITIES -- XI. BLIFIL AND BLACK GEORGE -- XII. ""FACULTIES MISEMPLOYED"" -- Notes on the Text -- Related Documents -- Index -- About the Editor

Recurring tacit patterns of relationships, called here metapatterns, represent an important, but largely neglected, focus for researchers interested in organizational culture. How metapatterns emerge and how they manifest themselves in organizational behavior is discussed at some length. Metapatterns, which comprise the tacit level of interpersonal and group interaction in organizations, are linked to other levels of analysis. The implications of metapatterns for the study of organizations are examined.

Like the Chimera of Greek mythology—an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts—professionalism has assimilated ethics as a part of its ordinary definition. In this paper, the relationship between professionalism and ethics is examined in historical context, which suggests the association of the two occurred during and just after the Progressive Era. It was during this period of time that technical rationality overwhelmed earlier understandings of professionalism—ones more conducive to moral reasoning. This paper addresses the prospects for a new professionalism in our present modern historical circumstances.