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"Take the red pill and discover how beneath the blah-blah of business-speak lies the pernicious ideology of Managerialism, which is progressively infecting our thinking and disabling our critical capacities. This book lays bare the ways instrumental reason is colonizing everyday life, and offers some powerful remedies. Read it and wake up!" Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California. "In the past century we have seen the inexorable rise of a class of people called managers who now seem to run every organization. In this sharp and beautifully written book, one of the major critics of managerialism shows us how this takeover relies on language to produce its own reality. If you want to speak like a manager, and understand what that speech does to you and others, then read this book." Martin Parker, Lead for the Bristol Inclusive Economy initiative, Department of Management, Bristol University, UK. This book explains how management became Managerialism and how the language of managerialism was developed. Providing a comprehensive discussion of the managerialism-language interface, the book argues that firstly, managerialism itself has developed its distinctive language; and secondly, the two concepts of managerialism and language mutually depend upon each other. Written from the critical media studies perspective of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, the book reaches beyond simple business communication, illustrating how the language of managerialism is colonising the non-corporate lifeworld. The book concludes by offering fresh ideas on how to move beyond the language of managerialism. Thomas Klikauer is a Senior Lecturer at the SGSM (Western Sydney University). A prolific author, his publications include Management Education (2017), Hegel's Moral Corporation (2016), Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management (2014), Managerialism (2013), and Seven Management Moralities (2012). .

1 Introducing Media Capitalism -- 2 The History: Of Media Capitalism -- 3 Media Capitalism and the Public Sphere -- 4 Media Capitalism and Schools -- 5 Media Capitalism and Universities -- 6 The Society of Media Capitalism -- 7 Human Behaviour in Media Capitalism -- 8 Media Capitalism and the World of Work -- 9 Democracy Under Media Capitalism -- 10 Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Media Capitalism.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introducing Media Capitalism -- Media Capitalism and PR's Spin Doctors -- The Ideology of Media Capitalism -- Two Transitions Towards Media Capitalism -- Conspiracy Therapy and Interest Symbiosis -- The Structure of the Book -- The Introductory Chapter: Introducing Media Capitalism and Ideology -- Media Capitalism's History -- The Public Sphere -- Children and Schooling -- Universities -- Society -- Human Behaviour -- Work -- Democracy -- Conclusion: Fragments of a Theory -- Chapter 2: The History: Of Media Capitalism -- Tribes and Slavery -- Feudalism and Religion -- Religion and Modernity -- The Rupture -- Capitalism and Consumerism -- Cohesion and Coercion -- Consumerist Ideologies -- Media Capitalism's Ideology -- Rationality and Ideology -- Supportive and Non-supportive Rationality -- Ending of Marx's Consciousness -- Inequality -- The Communism → Terrorism Shift -- Chapter 3: Media Capitalism and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 4: Media Capitalism and Schools -- Chapter 5: Media Capitalism and Universities -- Overcoming the Danger of Mass Education -- Chapter 6: The Society of Media Capitalism -- Chapter 7: Human Behaviour in Media Capitalism -- The Educational Sphere -- The Employment Sphere -- The Consumption Sphere -- The Democratic Sphere -- Chapter 8: Media Capitalism and the World of Work -- Chapter 9: Democracy Under Media Capitalism -- Media Democracy and Corporate States -- Parliamentarian Democracy as Media Spectacle -- Media Capitalism's Political Parties -- Media Capitalism and Voting -- Media Capitalism's Two-Party System -- Separating Democracy from Work and Consuming -- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Media Capitalism -- Fragments of a Theory of Media Capitalism -- Creating a Post-Media-Capitalist Society -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction - The Rise to Fame -- 2. Electoral Success -- 3. The AfD Voter -- 4. The Rise of Antisemitism -- 5. Nazis or Populists? -- 6. The Volksgemeinschaft -- 7. Björn Höcke and His Support -- 8. The Austrian Freedom Party -- 9. Ur-Fascism -- 10. Conclusion - Nazism in Germany -- AfD Chronology -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

Written in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, this book develops a practical theory designed to humanise management education. Inevitably encountering deeply authoritarian business schools, the author sets the rigidity of curriculum against a student-centred approach found in Honneth's concept of recognition and the Habermasian concept of communicative action. Management Education outlines measures for preventing Managerialism from colonising learning spaces that would prevent the practice of emancipatory learning from flourishing. The aim of the book is to allow students and teachers of business schools to create learning inside an education system based on humanity.

Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management analyses morality of HRM from the perspective of American psychologist Laurence Kohlberg. This book examines and makes value judgements on whether or not HRM is moral from the viewpoint of Kohlberg's seven stages of morality as a follow-up study of the author's 2012 book, Seven Management Moralities

Morality and ethics are linked to moral philosophy. However, almost all books on Human Resource Management are in fact books on HRM without much concern for morality."Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management" analyses morality of HRM from the perspective of American psychologist and ethicist Laurence Kohlberg (1927-1987). Standard works on the morality of HRM tend to classify HRM along three so-called main philosophical concepts: virtue ethics, utilitarianism, and Kantian ethics. This book examines and makes value judgements on whether or not HRM is moral through an exploration of HRM from the viewpoint of Kohlberg's seven stages of morality as a follow-up study of the author's 2012 book, Seven Management Moralities. This book is not so much a comprehensive and systematic philosophical discussion on HRM but an attempt to locate the morality of HRM along Kohlberg's scale of morality

For the first time, Seven Management Moralities delivers a comprehensive overview of all forms of moral and immoral behaviour displayed by management. Utilising Kohlberg's ascending scale of seven moralities, the book includes the ethics of Aristotle, Kant, Utilitarianism, Bauman, Habermas, and Singer

Many people have experienced management at work with some exposed to Managerialism. Once Managerialism had transcended the simplicity of managing companies it mutated into an ideology infiltrating nearly every eventuality of human life. Delivering a comprehensive definition of Managerialism, this book traces Managerialism's origins from simple factory administration to its current form as full-blown ideology that has infected private lives, public and educational institutions, society, the art, the economy, and even democracy. Today thousands of managers have graduated from Managerialism's main training facilities, namely management schools. They are ready to spread Managerialism's one-dimensional, anti-democratic, and authoritarian ideology that everything and anything can be managed through a specific set of managerial knowledge found in management studies. But there are also challenges to Managerialism. There are images of what lies beyond Managerialism. These post-managerial images include a rejection of the human and environmental destructiveness of Managerialism. And there are ways to create human and sustainable post-managerial living conditions.

Many people believe 'management' and 'ethics' are opposing ideas. Others simply laugh and shake their heads in utter disbelief. Perhaps rightly so! In our lifetime alone, management's moral failings range from Thalidomide (1950s) to today's Enron, BP, and Bernie Madoff's 'Ponzi Scheme'. Maybe management's dilemma with morality has been perfectly expressed as 'greed is good!' (Gordon Gekko in the film 'Wall Steet'). Is it really all about greed, money, and shareholder value? Seven Management Moralities examines management's moral behaviour from seven different perspectives. These are derived from Kohlberg's development of human morality. The seven levels range from 'macho-management' at level 1, selfishness (2), virtue ethics (3) law and order (4), wellbeing (5), to universalism (6) and environmental ethics (7). This volume has three sections: (I) applies ethics to management, (II) contains seven levels of management morality, and (III) concludes with an assessment of management when measured against an ascending scale of morality.

Written in the European tradition of Kant's philosophical trilogy on critique and Hegel's concept of ethical life it outlines the great traditions in ethical philosophy: Aristotelian virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarianism. It presents modern ethics from Nietzsche, Adorno, and Habermas to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.