NIGEL BALCHIN AND THE POLITICS OF SOUNDNESS
作者:
JOHN POWER,
期刊:
Public Administration
(WILEY Available online 1985)
卷期:
Volume 63,
issue 1
页码: 79-90
ISSN:0033-3298
年代: 1985
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9299.1985.tb00586.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
The bulk of Nigel Balchin's fiction follows the same pattern – a sound male character observing an unsound one; his plots are occasionally more complicated, as when a character examines critically his own soundness or when scientific soundness is transformed into political unacceptability. The novels are therefore a good guide to soundness as a golden mean. But rulers need to balance sense and vision. Balchin questions the value of bureaucratic games in modern organizations which harm a balanced resolution. It is surprising that as a psychologist who understands the pragmatic of interpersonal politics in organizations he failed himself to acquire the depth of vision of a great political novelis
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