Managerial fads and fashions, guru panaceas and organisational innovations have proliferated over the last 20 years. Drawing on case studies from the UK manufacturing and financial service sectors, this book argues that the emergence and popularity of a new range of management innovations reflects and facilitates the reproduction of a neo-liberal economics that has dominated Western politics for over almost a quarter of a century.
- What do recent management fads and fashions have in common?
- What are the implications and limitations of the prescriptions on offer for people's working lives?
The book contends that current management thinking around 'new' forms of work organization is immersed in a contemporary version of the American Dream. Referring to empirical research, the authors identify numerous difficulties confronting the implementation of this discourse, including:Organization and Innovation concludes that the contemporary American Dream offers only 'one' dream of a better tomorrow and offers a powerful argument that we should seek other dreams that question rather than simply legitimise current inequalities.
- Collective and individual forms of resistance
- Unintended consequences and contradictory tensions around the notions of autonomy versus control
- Individualism versus collectivism
- Insecurity versus commitment
- Quality versus quantity.
- ISBN13 9780335206841
- Publish Date 16 September 2003 (first published 1 January 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Edition International student edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English