Making and Selling Culture or Organizational Participation

Making and Selling Culture

Author: Richard Ohmann

To what extent do moviemakers, television and radio producers, advertising executives, and marketers merely reflect trends, beliefs, and desires that already exist in our culture, and to what extent do they consciously shape our culture to their own ends? In-depth interviews with ten executives from the "culture industry" and five scholarly analyses examine that question, and address the issues of power and authority, meaning and identity, that arise when cultural producers define and react to audiences. These reflections by key players provide an unprecedented view, as editor Richard Ohmann writes, "into the ways cultural producers imagine or know markets and how such knowledge figures in their decisions about what events, experiences, and products to make."

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Organizational Participation: Myth and Reality

Author: Frank A Heller

Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy--are they distinct and innovative arrangements or is it a case of new wine in old bottles? In the post-war period we have seen numerous forms of organizational participation sometimes as experiments, sometimes as negotiated expediency, and sometimes as hype. Different ideas have emerged from different parts of the world, in different industries, at different times with different objectives. In this book, four experienced international analysts take the longer view and look at the changing forms of--and changing debates around--organizational participation. They review an extensive literature of experiments and practical experiences through a critical evaluation of the available data to reach balanced conclusions about the importance and utility of this concept for organizations now and in the future.

Table of Contents:

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	Abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	An Overview	8
2	A View from Psychology	40
3	Organization Theory and Participation	65
4	Collective Bargaining, Unions, and Participation	97
5	Playing the Devil's Advocate: Limits to Influence Sharing in Theory and Practice	144
6	Participation Works - If Conditions are Appropriate	190
7	Myth and Reality: Valediction	220
	References	250
	Index	285