CMP Postmodern Management 2014 For Moodle

Joint Degrees-Management pathway
Critical Management Perspectives

Modernism and postmodernism Researching your topic
 General

indicative reading sources within the Module specification on
Moodle

 Your focus will influence your reading
 Utilise Summon, Emerald and ABI

https://icity.bcu.ac.uk/library-and-lear ning-resources  Link

to CMS articles

A few questions…
What is management theory?
Where does it come from?
Why do we accept it?

Challenging assumptions
Developing the rationale for the module...
Close your eyes and imagine the following scene….
A manager is sitting at a desk…
It is late Friday afternoon.

What was the manager wearing?
What gender was the manager?
What race was the manager?
Adapted from McGivern and Thompson, in Reynolds and Vince.
Organizing Reflection, 2004

Challenging assumptions  What are assumptions?
 Assumptions as the basis

of
“…the unexamined or unconscious theories that allow us to structure, interpret, and make sense of our world…Implicit theories become the lens and filter for everyday experience, dictating what one sees and how one interprets it.”
(Yinger, 1980 cited in Brookfield,1987)

Do you see what I see?
 http://

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enviro nment-14421303 Significance of lenses
 What

determines our “lenses and filters”?  Are these fixed?
 What influences our views of organisations and organisational activity?  Why

is it important to understand this?

Critical thinking?
…the analyses offered by the
(management) ‘gurus’ are attractive to managers and achieve a market presence, because they promise to give shape to the processes of management while diminishing the ambiguities inherent in management decision making.
(Collins, 2000)

Challenge? What do you think? Based on
What?
What are the implications of not challenging?

Which perspective?
Many perspectives out of which we can view management and organisations for example:
 Modernist
 Postmodernist
 Critical Management Theory
 Feminist