The inspired maverick
Dirty Harry lives on the edge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2246871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Sloane (Saint Mary's College of California, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-86 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Organizational Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2046-6749 • E-ISSN: 2046-6757 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/joe-01-2016-0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2282248111 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to describe three threshold experience cases where individuals avoid and disobey hierarchy and rules in order to satisfy their own values and aspirations.Design/methodology/approach- Observations of the author as a participant observer, employee, and academic researcher are reported and analyzed.Findings- In each of the three cases, the formal hierarchy was reversed or temporarily dissolved, continuity of tradition was uncertain and outcomes were thrown into doubt. These were liminal situations which involved uncertainty, ambiguity, doubts, and fear as a result of the suspending of organizational structure. The circumstances in which disobedience is most likely to occur are: lack of transparency; conflict between point of view of leaders and individual perception; demands that seem to be unreasonable; individual role in conflict with authoritative expectations.Originality/value- Organizational hierarchy and mandates are designed to produce achievement of management goals. There are, however, circumstances where individual resistance is required in order to achieve desired results
Ambiguity · Attractiveness · Business · Creativity · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Order (exchange · Originality · Perception · Political science · Sociology · Transparency (behavior · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Varieties of Police Behavior
Street-Level Bureaucracy
The reflective practitioner
Essays in Economic Sociology
Models of man, social and rational
Cops, Teachers, Counselors
Varieties of Police Behavior
Kant's Theory of Morals
In Praise of Bureaucracy
To Manage Is Not to Control
State Agent or Citizen Agent
Continental Sociology of Professions Today
Sociological Analysis of Professionalism
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |