The Soul Within…
Can individual values survive the pincer movement of organisational change and corporate alues within nature conservation?
Organisational behaviour is, perhaps surprisingly, one of the key elements of the context within which the UK nature conservation movement functions. The subject combines elements of sociology, psychology and economics that relate to business studies and is strongly in vogue. Business management schools are offering diverse courses in organisational behaviour and the important related area of organisational change, consultancies brandishing new ideas on behaviour and change are flourishing, academics are producing new theories and models with considerable frequency, and publishing houses are producing voluminous literature. Indeed, the literature canon is vast (there are even papers on the philosophy of bureaucracy and bureaucratisation). Something massive is happening, which affects us all deeply.
This article examines the impact of contemporary thinking about organisational behaviour and organisational change on people working for environmental organisations ...read more here...
This article was first published in ECOS 28 (1)
Title: The Soul Within…
Author: Matthew Oates
Date: 27 Apr 2007
