Against Management: Organization in the Age of ManagerialismISBN: 978-0-7456-2925-4
Hardcover
256 pages
October 2002, Polity
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Argues that managing is not the only way to organize and that
managerialism is a global form of ideology, which is being used to
justify considerable cruelty and inequality.
Draws from a wide variety of sources – anti-corporate
activism; books and films which use management as their backdrop;
the movement for business ethics and corporate social
responsibility; as well as critical management studies and general
social theories of the present.
Opens up the possibility of exploring non-managerial
alternatives to contemporary assumptions about organizing.
Encourages some radical questioning of the common sense that tells us that we need management, managers and management schools.