{"product_id":"against-management-organization-in-the-age-of-managerialism-hardback-9780745629254","title":"Against Management; Organization in the Age of Managerialism (Hardback) 9780745629254","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAgainst Management\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOrganization in the Age of Managerialism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Parker (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745629254, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 September 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"At last the omnipotent Manager faces a serious and worthy opponent in Parker's \u003ci\u003eAgainst Management\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a sophisticated polemic that ought to be compulsory reading for all managers, management students and citizens.\" \u003ci\u003eKeith Grint, Templeton College, Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I really enjoyed reading this book. It is original; it is provocative; it is scholarly in a positive way. It is extraordinarily well written – lucid as well as witty.\" \u003ci\u003eChristopher Grey, The Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Parker's capacity to combine solid scholarship with the publicist's flair is invaluable in a field often trapped in hyper-intellectualism.\" \u003ci\u003eOrganization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgainst Management\u003c\/i\u003e argues that management is increasingly being seen as a problem, and not a solution. Martin Parker 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. He also suggests that, in a variety of places, an odd collection of people seem to be coming to similar conclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt is possible to identify cracks in the religion of managerialism as some of its converts begin to lapse and others intensify their protest. In order to illustrate his argument, Parker 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParker's overall argument is that we can see the beginnings of a cultural shift in the image of management and that this is a significant historical change. Perhaps most importantly, it opens up the possibility of exploring non-managerial alternatives to contemporary assumptions about organizing. \u003ci\u003eAgainst Management\u003c\/i\u003e deliberately attempts to blur the boundaries between academic and popular writing, and encourages some radical questioning of the common sense that tells us that we need management, managers and management schools.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis will be essential reading for second-year undergraduates and above in business and management studies (including MBA), sociology and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Managerialism and its Discontents.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2. McBureaucracy: Liberalism and the Iron Cage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3. Citizenship: The Corporate State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4. Community: The Freedom to Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5. The Business of Business Ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6. Criticising Critical Management Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7. The Culture Industries and the Demonology of Big Organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Anti-Corporate Protest.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9. For Organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Business \u0026amp; management [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Business \u0026amp; management\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Business%20\u0026amp;%20management%20%5BKJ%5D%22\"\u003eKJ\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406588080408,"sku":"9780745629254","price":49.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745629254.jpg?v=1784140466","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/against-management-organization-in-the-age-of-managerialism-hardback-9780745629254","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}