Business Ethics: Managerial Ignorance in Organizations - Workplace Insights

The book of Dr. Reuven Shapira: 'Mismanagement, “Jumpers,” and Morality' is a very important addition to the understanding and to the knowledge of the issue of management and managers in cooperatives in general, and in cooperative enterprises.Cooperatives have special characteristics of itself, and many scholars such as Furubotn, EG and Pejovich, S., Vanek, J.,  M. L. Cook, and Mintzberg, H. as well as others have devoted lot of research to this issue. This book offers a new way of looking and learning the managers and the management in cooperatives, and this way is a cooperative one. The book deals with cooperative enterprises belonging to primary cooperatives, the kibbutzim. The kibbutz itself is, among other things, also a production and producers cooperative. The production functions and activities are fulfilled by members of the kibbutz, in most cases. The mangers of these enterprises are also members of the kibbutz. The kibbutzim are also creating enterprises, belonging to them but on a regional basis, which means that the full ownership of these enterprises are divided among the kibbutzim members, generally, at the same region. These enterprises are cooperative enterprises, and their managers are coming from the various kibbutzim the owners of these enterprises.Reuven Shapira book opens a new way to understand this management and these managers, by focusing with anthropological and sociological tools, he shows and analyses the existing system, its drawbacks and offers at the end of his book way to solve and overcome the difficulties he explores and presents to the reader.Good and instructive readingZvi Galor