Management Gurus and Management Fashions
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:15th Mar '01
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Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, ‘gurus’, have promoted a number of performance improvement programs and management fashions which have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organizational life and the preoccupations of academic researchers. This book provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion phenomenon, building on the important theoretical progress that has recently been made by a small, but growing band of management researchers.
Fantasy theme analysis, a dramatically-based method of rhetorical criticism, is conducted to critique three of the most important management fashions to have emerged during the 1990s:
* the re-engineering movement promoted by Michael Hammer and James Champy
* the effectiveness movement led by Stephen Covey
* the learning organization movement inspired by Peter Senge and his colleagues.
In addition to its rhetorical and empirical contributions, this book stimulates a much-needed critical dialogue between practitioners and academics on the sources of the underlying appeal of management gurus and management fashions, and their effect upon the quality of management and organizational learning.
'This stunning book makes sense out of the enigma of Management Gurus..' - Educational Book Review
'Jackson offers insightful accounts of recent management history ... interesting and original critical readings for advanced students in management studies.' - Scandinavian Journal of Management
'This stunning book makes sense out of the enigma of Management Gurus..' - Educational Book Review
'Jackson offers insightful accounts of recent management history ... interesting and original critical readings for advanced students in management studies.' - Scandinavian Journal of Management
ISBN: 9780415249461
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 340g
228 pages