Moral gray zones : side productions, identity, and regulation in an aeronautic plant / Michel Anteby.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The persistence of organizational gray zones -- The motivations and the setting -- Revisiting social systems in organizations -- The side production of homers in factories -- The Pierreville plant : setting and status divides -- The findings -- Retirement homers : an entry into the community -- Homers gone wrong : delimiting the gray zone -- Shades of homer meanings: occupational variations -- The rise and fall of craftsmanship -- Trading in hidden identity incentives -- The implications -- Organizational gray zones as identity distillers -- Identities, control, and moralities -- Appendix A : Data and methods -- Appendix B : Position in the field.

Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated practices--gray zones. When discovered, these transgressions often provoke disapproval; when company materials are diverted in the process, these breaches are quickly labeled theft. Yet, why do gray zones persist and why are they unlikely to disappear? In Moral Gray Zones, Michel Anteby shows how these spaces function as regulating mechanisms within workplaces, fashioning workers' identity and self-esteem while allowing management to maintain control.

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