The University of Hope

Monika Kostera is a Professor in Sociology and Management at Warsaw University, as well as Professor in Management at Södertörn University, Sweden, and is affiliated with LITEM, l'Université Évry Val-d'Essonne, France. She has also been employed as professor and chair at UK universities. She writes and publishes texts on organization and management, as well as poetry. She is Associate Editor at Gender, Work and Organization and Culture & Organization, and has been co-editing several journals including British Journal of Management. Her current research interests include organizational imagination, disalienated work, and organizational ethnography.

• 1: Kindness: Re-connecting with the foundation2: Diligence: Beyond productivity3: Patience: To see more clearly4: Temperance: Against frantic emptiness5: Chastity: Celebrating desire6: Humility: Staying connected in a world of fierce competition7: Collegiality: Against greed (which is not good)8: Redemption and Renaissance

Monika Kostera's book is a great source of knowledge for organization scholars and management students interested in how different forms of organizing can shape people's moral compasses and behaviours. This publication is also a valuable compendium for higher education policy makers and university managers — a warning signal on how the academic community could be easily destroyed by harmful organizational changes, and how to regain what has been already lost by recovering 'all the virtues connecting us with something greater than ourselves'.It is worth to mention, however, that there is no nostalgia for some better time in academia in this book-the author brilliantly diagnoses the pathologies of feudalism in the academy, and the harassing actions performed by feudal ladies and feudal lords, now reinforced by neoliberal reform.