Managing Britannia : culture and management in modern Britain / Robert Protherough and John Pick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Protherough, Robert, author.

Pick, John, 1936- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management--Great Britain.

Management.

Great Britain--Civilization.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter, UK : Imprint Academic, 2003.

Summary:

For more than thirty years the solution to all Britain's problems has been better management. As a result management schools dominate higher education and managers are at work everywhere developing 'strategies' and 'systems' and quantifying 'outcomes'. There are now more managers on the rail network than train drivers, yet the benefits of modern management of railways, schools, hospitals and universities are elusive.This is because 'management' does not exist-the academic study of 'management science' and the assumption that there are universal management skills are bogus. This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion-modern management is the cause of our national malaise.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents ; Front Matter ; Title Page ; Quote ; Publisher Information ; Acknowledgements; Preface; Managing Britannia ; The Cultures of Management; How Managers Behave; The Language of Modern Managemen ; Managemen as an Academic Subject ; Managing the Arts; Managing the Schools; Managing the Deity; Rebranding Britain; The Real World: Management in Literature ; Bursting the Managerial Bubble; Back Matter ; Also Available

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84540-480-7

OCLC:

941700221