The Critique of Management

2 Management as Participation, Responsive Action, and Constitution of Meaning

DOI: 10.4324/9781003231875-2

In chapter 1, we critically reflected on management as managerial power, as mechanism of control and as focussed on profit maximization (Section 6). Our consultation of Xenophon’s insights in the nature of management enabled us to open up this self-evident concept for philosophical reflection. In this chapter, we continue our reflections by focussing on the act of management itself. The point of departure of this chapter is the assumption that we do no justice to the nature of management if we only conceive the phenomenon from the perspective of its utility, that is, the idea that the nature of management can be conceived based on its ...