Confronting managerialism : how the business elite and their schools threw our lives out of balance / Robert. R Locke and J.C. Spender.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Locke, Robert R., 1932- author.

Spender, J.-C., author.

Series:

Economic controversies.

Economic controversies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management.

Bureaucracy.

Physical Description:

xix, 217 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, ©2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show how business managers who were once well-regarded as custodians of the economic engines vital to our growth and social progress now seem closer to the rapacious "robber barons" of the 1880s. In effect, responsible management has given way to "managerialism," whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from any ethical considerations now call the shots, sending the lives of rest of us "out of balance." The book traces the loss of managers' earlier social concerns, amply encouraged by management education's transformation since the 1960s, especially in the US. It also questions not only the social ethics of the US management caste, but its management efficacy compared to systems of management that are highly employee participative and dependent, such as in Germany and Japan. Today's attempts to "bolt on" ethics and social responsibility courses, the authors argue, are mere window-dressing, a public relations move that cannot get to the heart of the matter. Only fundamental reforms in civil society and business schools can really make a difference.

Contents:

1. The failure of management science and the US business school model

2. US managerialism and business schools fail to find their moral compass

3. Managerialism and the decline of the US automobile industry

4. Managerialism, business schools and our financial crisis

Conclusion: back to balance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9786613276087

9781350219304

1350219304

9781780329611

178032961X

9781283276085

1283276089

9781780320731

1780320736

OCLC:

754582434