![]() These include the idea that workers behave, and can be directed to behave, in a predictable way so that management can constitute a science based on a general, abstract laws. ![]() Moreover, it is not just methodological errors that are the issue it's that the fundamental presuppositions of management thinking, from its inception to present, are wrong. ![]() Stewart makes the case that many of the thinkers who were crucial to the development of management as a discipline, such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Elton Mayo, were frauds who incorrectly generalised the results of very specific cases or just simply fabricated their results. It's the academic discipline of management, including everyone from Harvard Business School on downwards. When it comes to 'management thinking', Stewart's target isn't primarily the pop management gurus whose books you find being sold in city train stations and airport lounges. And, in fairness to Stewart, from both sides of this twin history, you also get the impression that those who engage with management, whether in theory or practice, could do with being a little more sceptical, or perhaps choose not to be. The book offers both an intellectual history of management thought and a history of his personal experience as a management consultant. ![]() ![]() Although, since he is a philosopher by training, he might prefer to be designated a 'sceptic' instead. Matthew Stewart is a cynic this is the impression you get from reading The Management Myth. ![]()
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