The Critique of Management

4 Management as Non-reductive Stakeholder Engagement

DOI: 10.4324/9781003231875-4

In the chapter 1, we critically reflected on management as the assignment of tasks and roles to human resources in order to establish and govern the functioning order of the business. As management first and foremost have to engage in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders with different and even conflicting visions and value frames, we questioned whether managers can easily manage these human resources by assigning tasks and roles (Section 7). We raised the question what implications the wickedness of the grand challenges of our time and our epistemic insufficiency to manage these challenges have for our conceptualization of the management of ...