CAPITAL AND WORKER VALUES:  WHAT MATTERS IN AN ORGANIZATION?

Concluding Comments

Many psychologists have written about shifts in the lives of many mid-life men toward community and service and away from corporate pursuits—a shift from success to significance.[lxxii] They have noted, by contrast, the frequent shift among mid-life women toward more individualistic pursuits and positions of leadership and responsibility. As a result, we are likely to see the Catholic Church’s emphasis on service as a vehicle for salvation and, more immediately, as a vehicle for finding meaning in life, to be particularly appealing to successful middle-class males in our society. This premodern concern for service and community intermingles, in turn, with a modern concern for individual achievement and a newly emerging concern for integrating personal and professional growth—thus helping to produce the complex, often contradictory, world I have defined as postmodern.

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[i]Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century, New York: HarperBusiness, 1999, p. 27.

[ii] Shawn Tully, “The B2B tool that really is changing the world,” Fortune, March 20, 2000, p. 134.

[iii] Peter Elkind, “The hype is big, really big, at Priceline,” Fortune, September 6, 1999, p. 196.

[iv] Katrina Brooker, “Amazon vs.everybody,” Fortune, November 8, 1999, p. 123.

[v] Katrina Brooker, “Amazon vs.everybody,” Fortune, November 8, 1999, p. 128.

[vi] Nelson D. Schwartz, “The tech boom will keep on rocking,” Fortune, February 15, 1999, p.66.

[vii]Jerry Usseem, “New ethics or no ethics?” Fortune, March 20, 2000, p. 86

[viii] Jerry Usseem, “New ethics or no ethics?” Fortune, March 20, 2000, p. 84.

[ix] Jerry Usseem, “New ethics or no ethics?” Fortune, March 20, 2000, p. 85.

[x] Melanie Warner, “Nice work if you can get it,” Fortune, December 6, 1999, p. 183.

[xi]Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century, New York: HarperBusiness, 1999, pp. 55, 59.

[xii] Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century, New York: HarperBusiness, 1999, p. 69.

[xiii] Daniel Bell (1976)

[xiv] Peter Drucker (1989)

[xv] Drucker (1968 — excerpted in Best, 1973, p. 59)

[xvi] —- “How new is the Internet, really?” Fortune, November 22, 1999, p. 180.

[xvii] Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century, New York: HarperBusiness, 1999, p. 27.

[xviii] Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century, New York: HarperBusiness, 1999, p. 97.

[xix] Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21^st Century, New York: HarperBusiness, 1999, pp. 99-100.

[xx] William Bergquist, The Postmodern Leader: New Human Resource Strategies, 2000.