About: Moral Mazes

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers is a 1988 book by sociologist that investigates the world of corporate managers in the United States. In the introduction, Jackall writes that he "went into these organizations to study how bureaucracy—the prevailing organizational form of our society—shapes moral consciousness" and that the book is "an interpretive sociological account of how managers think the world works." It was named the "Most Outstanding Business and Management Book" of 1988 by the Association of American Publishers.