Numerous reprehensible corporate, governmental, and nonprofit activities over recent years have highlighted the existence of organizational evil. Unlike other works on the topic, this book fully develops the concept of organizational evil, conceptually weaving the interchange between evil individuals (microlevel) who ultimately create the organizational environment that is evil, and the macrolevel elements of policy, culture, and manipulations of the social environment.

Carole L. Jurkiewicz is the Woman's Hospital Distinguished Professor of Healthcare Management and the John W. Dupuy Endowed Professor in the Public Administration Institute of the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University. Her work focuses upon organizational performance as a function of employee ethicality and organizational structure. She has published widely in the areas of organizational and individual performance, ethics, power, and leadership, adding to her academic career many years of experience as an executive in private and non-profit organizations and a consultant to governments.

Introduction, Part I. The Nature of Organizational Evil 1. Evil at Work 2. The Dynamics of Administrative Evil in Organizations 3. Machiavellians and Organizational Evil 4. Evil in Public Administration: A Contrary Perspective 5. On the Psychology of Evil in Interpersonal and Corporate Contexts Part II. Understanding Organizational Evil 6. Power in Organizations: Good vs. Evil 7. Holy Evil 8. Imagining and Managing Organizational Evil 9. For "the Greater Good": Exposing the Parody of Necessary Evil-Exemplars from Organizational Life 10. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa: Understanding Roots of and Responses to Societal Evil 11. Unconsciousness and Organizational Evil 12. The Four Roots of Organizational Evil Part III. Faces of Organizational Evil 13. The Evil of Utopia 14. Lawyers' Ethics in Decline 15. The Moral Dimension of Security Outsourcing 16. Devolution 17. Organizational Systemic Factors of Evil in an Academic University Culture