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Instead of Managerialism: From What Goes on Inside Our Heads to What Our Heads (and Bodies) Go on Inside of – the World between Us
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Abstract "Theodore Taptiklis is a former McKinsey & Company consultant who,
over the course of a 40 year career in business and organizations, undertook
a wide variety of roles, including board member, senior executive,
strategist and change manager, business development manager, and
worked also in a var... view more
"Theodore Taptiklis is a former McKinsey & Company consultant who,
over the course of a 40 year career in business and organizations, undertook
a wide variety of roles, including board member, senior executive,
strategist and change manager, business development manager, and
worked also in a variety of line-management positions as both an employee
and as a professional advisor. He characterizes his professional life
during that time as a progression from, not only a position of arrogant certainty
to one of increasing ignorance, but also as one from realizing the
all-consuming pervasiveness and insidiousness of traditional management
doctrine (managerialism) to the possibility of more authentic and liberating
ways of experiencing organizational life. The starting point for this
process of ‘unmanaging’ ourselves, he suggests, is what we can notice
each moment in our experience of the activities occurring between us in
our everyday lives – a move from understanding our own practices as outside
observers of them to engaged participants within them." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
manager; system theory; management consultant
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Sociology of Work, Industrial Sociology, Industrial Relations
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 322-341
Journal
International Journal of Action Research, 5 (2009) 3
ISSN
1861-1303
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications