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Schwartz, H. S. (1990).  Narcissistic Process and Corporate Decay: The Theory of the Organizational Ideal.
"When work, the productive process, becomes display, its meaning becomes lost. Its performance as part of the organizational drama becomes the only meaning it has. Accordingly, the parts it plays in the organization's transactions with the world become irrelevant. When this happens, work loses its adaptive function and becomes mere ritual. At the same time, the rituals that serve to express the individual's identification with the organization ideal, especially those connected with rank, come to be infused with significance for the individual. They become sacred. Thus, reality and appearance trade places. The energy that once went into the production of goods and services of value to others is channelled into the dramatization of a narcissistic fantasy in which the organization's environment is merely a stage setting." (p. 61)
Hammer, M., & Champy J. (1994).  Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution.
"We found that many tasks that employees performed had nothing at all to do with meeting customer needs—that is, creating a product high in quality, supplying that product at a fair price, and providing excellent service. Many tasks were done simply to satisfy the internal demands of the company's own organization." (p. 4)

See also: unconscious, busyness, tradition

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ritual

  • Concept: ritual
    • preferred: ritual
    • definition: any customary observance or practice
    • related: unconscious
    • related: busyness
    • related: tradition
    • closeMatch: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-ritual-noun-1.rdf
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      • sense: rite
      • sense: ritual
      • ritual
      • in scheme: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/
      • gloss: any customary observance or practice
      • hyponym of: http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-custom-noun-1
      • synset id: 101027859
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