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| Author: | Hassard, J. Porter, R. |
| Title: | Cutting down the workforce: eunuchs and early administrative management |
| Journal: | Organization Studies
1990 : VOL. 11:4, p. 555-567 |
| Index terms: | SUBORDINATES ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL EMPLOYMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The literature that exists on the role of eunuchs in pre-modern bureaucracies suggests that purposive castration was a means of securing subordinate commitment and maintaining organizational control. This literature is briefly summarized. The conclusions are tested against the Chinese experience. There the cultural factors were more imporant than the simple fact of desexualization in determining the role and behaviour of eunuchs, and in many cases castration did not engender loyalty or commitment, or facilitate control. The systems of the Confucian meritocracy are examined. The failure of castration as an employment practice is analyzed. (It could not guarantee the elimination of employee ambition.) |
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