Management Gurus and Management Fashions

by Jackson,Brad

• ISBN13: 9780415249454
• ISBN10: 0415249457
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, or management gurus, have promoted a number of performance improvement programs or management fashions that 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 with a view to building on the important theoretical progress that has recently been made by a small, but growing, band of management researchers.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	vii
Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(7)
Starting out	1	(2)
The wider view	3	(2)
The purpose of the book	5	(1)
The structure of the book	6	(2)
The management guru and management fashion phenomenon	8	(36)
Introduction	8	(1)
Describing the phenomenon	9	(7)
The backlash	16	(6)
Emerging explanatory accounts	22	(14)
Toward a rhetorical critique	36	(6)
Summary	42	(2)
Dramatistic rhetorical criticism	44	(27)
Introduction	44	(2)
The Fantasy Theme method of rhetorical criticism	46	(16)
Research design	62	(7)
Summary	69	(2)
Michael Hammer, James Champy and the reengineering movement	71	(23)
Introduction	71	(1)
The reengineering movement	72	(6)
The rhetorical vision of reengineering	78	(7)
The performance of reengineering	85	(8)
Summary	93	(1)
Stephen Covey and the effectiveness movement	94	(24)
Introduction	94	(1)
The seven highly effective habits of Stephen Covey	95	(4)
Defining the rhetorical community of the effectiveness movement	99	(2)
The rhetorical vision of the effectiveness movement	101	(9)
Managing spiritual movements in a secular age	110	(6)
Summary	116	(2)
Peter Senge and the learning organization	118	(35)
Introduction	118	(1)
Forerunners and variants of the learning organization vision	119	(3)
Organizing the learning organization vision	122	(9)
The rhetorical community of the learning organization	131	(4)
The rhetorical vision of the learning organization	135	(9)
Sustaining the vision of the learning organization	144	(7)
Summary	151	(2)
Discussion	153	(20)
Introduction	153	(1)
The three rhetorical visions compared	154	(9)
Assessing Fantasy Theme Analysis	163	(3)
Extending the analysis	166	(5)
Summary	171	(2)
Conclusion	173	(7)
Introduction	173	(1)
Fostering a dialogue between academics and practitioners	174	(1)
The road ahead	175	(3)
Curtain call	178	(2)
References	180	(21)
Index	201