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The Organization Man (book)  

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  • The Organization Man is the title of a best-selling book published in 1956 by William H. Whyte. Written by Whyte when he was the editor of Fortune magazine, the book explores the character of the organization man, the white-collar worker of the post–World War II United States, professionally domiciled in a large bureaucratic corporation or the public service and domestically sequestered in a prefabricated suburbia. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Organizational Man]

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