Rationality alone cannot measure organizational proficiency once moral criteria are excluded.
Evidence
One of the most crucial among them is the jarring insufficiency of rationality as a sole measurement of organizational proficiency. This lesson is still to be absorbed in full by the social scientists. Until this is done we may go on researching and generalizing the tremendous advance in the effectiveness of human action attained thanks to the elimination of qualitative criteria, moral norms included – and all too seldom thinking through the consequences. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 426
Categorization
- XREF: Directly feeds the scaffolding into Islamophobia readings: bureaucratic rationality as precondition for mass exclusion. — connects to: Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 502; Moral disputes over ideal states cannot be settled by reason alone. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 552
Related
- Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically. (similarity 0.88)
- Organizations suppress morality because it cannot be rationalized (similarity 0.86)
- Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically.
#expands(0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 502 - Moral disputes over ideal states cannot be settled by reason alone.
#corroborates(0.80) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 552