ABSTRACT

This chapter addresses the ethical decisions that execute debate on when they have to implement radical organizational transformation while they have to pursue the ever increasing operational performance objectives. It looks at the phenomenon of organizational transformation as a new form of 'industrial revolution' embracing the basic capitalist principals of the organization operational engineered improvements. The chapter introduces the current context in which organizational transformation has changed in terms of strategic initiative. It concerns on the new phenomenon on the executive function in terms of leadership and management practices and it revisits the conceptual framework on organizational change facing empirical data. The chapter focuses on the human and economic consequences of this change phenomenon and new management practices have on the Canadian society. It allows people to look at the new human conditions it has created within the Canadian corporations. The chapter discusses the consequences of this new economic, managerial and social context on the tacit moral contract.