Organization Man by Whyte William, First Edition (18 results)

Condition: Good. 1960. First edition thus. 393 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition, 6th Printing. Text/Bright, strong As New. Illustrated soft cover/NF w/faint creasings & trace discoloration to back. Endpapers also showing discoloration. Remainder mark to lower text edge. Classic sociological study of the individual as a member of large, bureaucratic organizations. A work marking the epoch when white shirts were all one saw at Bell Labs and IBM . cultural values of "belongingness" and "togetherness" ascend, conformity becomes the stamp of the "well-rounded man", and the hold of the Protestant Ethnic recedes. 29 chapters presented in 7 parts: Part I, The Ideology of Organization Man; II, The Training of Organization Man; III, The Neuroses of Organization Man; IV, The Testing of Organization Man; V, The Organization Scientist; VI, The Organization Man in Fiction; and VII, The New Suburbia: Organization Man at Home followed by a pragmatic and helpful Appendix: How to Cheat on Personality Tests.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 393 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Individuality. Loyalty. Conflict (Psychology). Organization. Bureaucracy. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 393 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Individuality. Loyalty. Conflict (Psychology). Organization. Bureaucracy. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable Dust Jacket. First Edition, 6th Printing. 6th printing of 1st edition. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. good hardcover with acceptable DJ, NOT ex-library. Boards have some discoloration, previous owner's name on front endpaper. I saw four pages with pencil markings that I easily erased. Dust jacket has discoloration and lots of wear and tear, including a large chip missing from top front edge, just above title near spine. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Pages are clean. Book is tight. Tattered pages. Jacket's condition is good with slight staining. The organization man is the middle-class American who has left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 429 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Fair dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial off-white and gray with red and black lettering. Exterior has moderate plus wear including several instances of chips to the head/tail edges, slight soiling and mild age toning. Boards have slight wear including faint sunning and slight edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the fore/tail edges and head edge colored red. Deckled fore edge. Review Copy with slip laid in. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column Y. 1407889. FP New Rockville Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1960 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good clean tight binding with wonderful cover design as shown.

hardcover. first edition. 8vo 429pp. from Chapter 1 Introduction: "This book is about the Organization Man. If the term is vague, it is because I can think of no other way to describe the people I am talking about. They are not the workers, nor are they thte white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for The Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating institutions." #02567. Book VG: mild shelf wear/soil to boards and spine, toning to endpapers, text unmarked, binding tight.

hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. edge wear on the boards. contents are mildly foxed. sound binding. fairly good condition. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Very Good. NY: Simon and Schuster 1956. 1st edition. Stated 1st printing. Hardcover 8vo 429 pgs. Very good in a fair dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped. Light wear to fore edge of front cover. Light toning to endpapers. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket is edgeworn, chipped, torn and soiled. Review copy - laid in is a review slip stating 'This is an Advance Copy from S&S', etc. (Organizational Behavior, Individuality, Business, Psychology) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Quarter beige cover with black boards is toned on spine but near pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. .

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Contains previous owners incription/name on FFEP. Rubbing to corners. No jacket. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Jean Pruchnik, George B. Schaller (illustrator). First Edition. Book divisions: Part I - The Ideology of Organization Man, 5 chapters; Part II - The Training of Organization Man, 5 chapters; Part III - The Neuroses of Organization Man, 3 chapters; Part IV -The Testing of Organization Man, 2 chapters; Part V, The Organization Scientist, 3 chapters; Part VI -The Organization Man in Fiction, 2 chapters; Part VII - The New Surburbia, Organization Man at Home, 9 chapters.410 pp. plus: Acknowledgments, Index, About the author. Duotone cloth covered boards have red title box with silver gilt text on spine. Faux silver gilt author's signature on front panel. Book is tight and square. Digital images available on request. Inscription, " 2/2/57/ Per Justin Oppenheim - - / Chuck Lamm describes you as a fellow raconteur so very [underscored] best regards/ Henry Whyte " SIGNED and dated by author. Bookseller's Inventory # 242678. Inscribed by Author(s).

Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); only very minor wear d/j. A nice copy! 8vo., cloth & boards in dust jacket; 429 pages First Edition, first printing. William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte Jr. [1917-1999] was an American urbanist, sociologist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher. He identified the elements that create vibrant public spaces within the city and filmed a variety of urban plazas in New York City in the 1970s. After his book about corporate culture The Organization Man (1956) sold over two million copies. "The most compelling portrait of middle-class Americans at midcentury and the starting point for all subsequent investigations of their legacy" said two book reviewers. Whyte turned his attention to the study of human behavior in urban settings. He published several books on the topic, including The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (1980).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. Pp. 429. Stated first printing. A fine copy in cloth-backed boards. Small, neat owner's name and address. Unclipped jacket is very good, with light soil, and small tears to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing. Stated First Printing. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, small corner chips.

First edition of one of the most influential books on management ever written. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Best to Lydia Bronte about whom this book was not written! Holly Whyte 4/18/89." Additionally signed "William H. Whyte" on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a few small chips to the crown of the spine. Uncommon signed and inscribed. William H. Whyte was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and self-proclaimed people-watcher. The Organization Man is "[r]ecognized as a benchmark, Whyte's book reveals the dilemmas at the heart of the group ethos that emerged in the corporate and social world of the postwar era" (Nathan Glazer). While employed by Fortune Magazine, Whyte did extensive interviews with the CEOs of major American corporations such as General Electric and Ford. A central tenet of the book is that average Americans subscribed to a collectivist ethic rather than to the prevailing notion of rugged individualism. A key point made was that people became convinced that organizations and groups could make better decisions than individuals, and thus serving an organization became logically preferable to advancing one's individual creativity. Whyte felt this was counterfactual and listed a number of examples of how individual work and creativity can produce better outcomes than collectivist processes. He observed that this system led to risk-averse executives who faced no consequences and could expect jobs for life as long as they made no egregious missteps. Whyte's book led to deeper examinations of the concept of "commitment" and "loyalty" within corporations. It "established the categories Americans now use when thinking about the workplace, the suburbs, and their lives" (Newsweek).