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The '60s Kids in the Corporation: More than Just 'Daydream Believers'

2023; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.4382455

1556-5068

Joseph A. Raelin,

Media Studies and Communication

This article is about professionals who have infiltrated our modern-day organizations, no longer as protesters, as campus radicals, or even as troublemakers. Indeed, many of them are serious, devoted employees who are retained, if for nothing else, because of their record of extremely high performance. Yet, they're different from other non-professional employees, and even from other salaried professionals. They're still 60's kids. They still believe in full participation rights in their local society; they're interested in assuming positions of responsibility and autonomy if not of power, but they won't be denied the opportunity to use their individual initiative in solving organizational problems. These are the "60's professionals," and in this article, not only will I attempt to tell you who they are and what they're like, but how they can be successfully assimilated into bureaucratic life.