Return to Judgement : The Case for Post-Infantilized Management.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alvesson, Mats.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Critical thinking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Return to Judgement".

Contents:

Front Cover

Series

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface

1 How It Used to Be Simpler

Erosion of Enlightenment's push for the use of judgement

More management and administration

A counterproductive development

The structure of the book

2 Excess of Professional Administrators and Knowledge Workers

The growth of managers

The knowing better class

The administrative upper class

The relation between the AUC and the KBC

The (often) negative dominance of the AUC and the KBC

Knowledge and/​or bureaucracy?

Summary

3 The Colonization of the Lifeworld

Increased system dominance

System dominance in working life

The birth and limits of bureaucracy

When bureaucrats and practitioners crash

The entrenchment problem

Homo systemicus

4 The Rise of Managerialism and the Decline of Productivity

The birth and conquest of managerialism

The booming offices

The great stagnation

The managerial illusion

The rise of the consultants

When the KBC fails to listen

The exaggerated expertise of the KBC and the AUC

5 A World of Imperfections and Vulnerabilities

Sensitivity for shortcomings

Increase in low mental health and diagnosis

Diagnosis drives experiences of problems

The rise of concept creep

Clientization and victimization

Optimization of expert-​led improvement

The rise of the theragog

Theragogy and leadership

Ambiguity of problems and solutions

The KBC in action

Balance and recovery

And other themes …

The need for feedback from the manager

Vulnerability and risk

6 The New Unfreedom

The declining autonomy of work

External and internal blockages

Overall cultural changes: fear, other-​directedness and narcissism

The culture of fear

The rise of other-​directed people.

Culture of narcissism

Fear +​ other-​directedness +​ narcissism as a cocktail of unfreedom

The world as a minefield

The minefield

The making of minefields

Administrators in higher education

Woke Inc.

All around asymmetries

The new unfreedom: the expansion of asymmetry and the small-​doing of people

7 The (False?) Need for Regulation and Improvement

Two assumptions

The gravitation towards system solutions

Intervention bias and the omnipotence fallacy

The escape to unfreedom

Two types of anxiety -​ and people

Our need for leadership

Do we really need leadership?

Need of solution

A regulation-​driven need for regulation

8 Judgement as the Key Principle

Using judgement

Elements in judgement

Meta judgement

The importance of expectations

Can people use judgement?

The nature of practical knowing

Unlearning of unfreedom

9 Post-​Infantilized Management

The professional judgement of the AUC and the KBC

Making management less all-​embracing

Leadership on demand

Experts on demand

An illustration of expertise on demand

Activating the voice of subordinates

Challenge safetyism and allow for risk taking

Avoiding intervention bias and grandiosity

Reward subtraction -​ not adding

Structural overview and monitoring

A new role for the AUC and the KBC

Countering the new unfreedom

10 Conclusion and Perspectives

Beyond a self-​serving elite

The revenge of the deplorables

Index.

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ISBN:

1-5292-4445-5

OCLC:

1587900702