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Join the roomKenneth (Andy) Andrews is the Tileston Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his doctorate in sociology from Stony Brook University in 1997. His bachelor's degree is from Millsaps College. Prior to his position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Andrews was a member of the department of sociology at Harvard University and served as a visiting scholar for the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City.
“The Functions of the Executive remains today, as it has been since its publication, the most thought-provoking book on organization and management ever written by a practicing executive.”
“My career as a teacher, researcher, and consultant has been focused on the education of practicing executives to direct their attention to the need for defining the purposes of their own lives and those of their organizations, and to the fact that such purposes should be worth pursuing in terms of profit outcomes and social responsibility.”
“It is important only to remember that the 'choice of goals and the formulation of policy cannot in any case be separate decisions.”
“The personality of firms like Polaroid, Xerox, Control Data, IBM, ITT, LTV and General Motors clearly reflects aspects of company and management intent that are manifested only partially in such activities as research expenditures, choice of product line and recruitment and development of organization members.”
“We must acknowledge at this point that there is no way to divorce the decision determining the most sensible economic strategy for a company from the personal values of those who make the choice.”
“We now move to what they ought to do — from the viewpoint of various leaders and segments of society and their own standards of right and wrong. Ethics, like preference, may be considered a product of values.”
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