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Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, 'gurus', have promoted a number of performance improvement programs and management fashions which have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organizational life and the preoccupations of academic researchers. This book provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion phenomenon, building on the important theoretical progress that has recently been made by a small, but growing band of management researchers. Fantasy theme analysis, a dramatically-based method of rhetorical criticism, is conducted to critique three of the most important management fashions to have emerged during the 1990s: the re-engineering movement promoted by Michael Hammer and James Champy the effectiveness movement led by Stephen Covey the learning organization movement inspired by Peter Senge and his colleagues.In addition to its rhetorical and empirical contributions, this book stimulates a much-needed critical dialogue between practitioners and academics on the sources of the underlying appeal of management gurus and management fashions, and their effect upon the quality of management and organizational learning.
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Business, Management, Nonfiction, Workplace Culture, Corporate Governance, Leadership, Executive ability, Organizational Development, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Case studies, Cas, Études de, Trendsetters, Études comparatives, Ausbreitung, Führungskraft, Gestion, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Methode, Vaardigheden, Fallstudiensammlung, Conseillers de gestion, Leiderschap, Gestion d'entreprise, Business consultants, Études de cas, Aptitude pour la directionShowing 8 featured editions. View all 8 editions?
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions
2002, Taylor & Francis Inc
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions
April 26, 2001, Routledge
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions
2001, Taylor & Francis Group
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions: A Dramatistic Inquiry
2001, Taylor & Francis Group
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"Management gurus and management fashions have had an important impact upon my thinking and practice in all three of the roles - manager, educator and researcher - that I have performed in my professional life."
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