Public Secrets as a Phenomenon in Organizational Communication: How Public Knowledge Fails to Become Organizational Action

There seem to be two realms in our waking time: work and life. However, work is often juxtaposed against life, which is found in anything but work. Organizational work has become nothing more than the necessary evil, the means for a livelihood. Work has ubiquitously become the enemy of life. What culprit has dichotomized work and life? Public secrets!

Empirically based, this book explores and testi...