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A Benefit of the Crash: More Focus on Culture and Engagement at Work

In: The High Engagement Work Culture

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  • David Bowles

    (Lancaster University)

  • Cary Cooper

    (Lancaster University)

Abstract

They say that “every cloud has a silver lining.” Is there a silver lining to the Crash, one which will help us move forward? We believe there is a huge one: as we have seen on Wall Street, the Crash was like an earthquake which has exposed the fault lines in some of our organizational cultures and forced us to ask questions about how we manage them. If we are smart about what we do with this information, and we have the courage to change, perhaps the probability of the next Crash can be at least lessened, and that would be only the start. When we look at the cultures within our organizations, we cannot help but wonder how they affect day-to-day work life for hundreds of millions of people who work in them. To give just one example, if the “individual is hero,” how does that affect people who might be very good at their jobs but very poor at being “heroes”?

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  • David Bowles & Cary Cooper, 2012. "A Benefit of the Crash: More Focus on Culture and Engagement at Work," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The High Engagement Work Culture, chapter 2, pages 20-54, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-02807-5_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137028075_3
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