The Darker Side of the American Workplace

The American workplace defies easy explanation. The diversity of regional cultures, enterprises, economies, rural and urban locations, differing sizes, public and private orientation and value systems creates a hard to understand context that negates one’s best efforts to generalize about what exactly it is like to work for any one organization or the generic organization. To be noted is also the fact that larger organizations contain many subdivisions, each of which contains their own cultures where one of these subcultures may be an outstanding, inspiring and uplifting place to work within a larger organization dominated by punishing organizational dynamics. In sum, the American workplace does defy easy description, not unlike organizations spread across the globe.