 The 'new organization' and the 'new managerial work'Mahmoud Ezzamel, Simon Lilley and Hugh Willmott European Management Journal, 1994, vol. 12, issue 4, 454-461 Abstract: Managers are currently exhorted by 'gurus' to adopt new management thinking in the face of obvious rapid change and uncertainty. In essence, the new thinking advocates shifting from 'command-and-control' to 'facilitate-and-empower' forms of organization and work. In a survey of senior managers from a sample of the Times 600 companies, Mahmoud Ezzamel, Simon Lilley and Hugh Willmott show that UK managers are indeed aware of major shifts occurring in their environment, and accept the need for change. But the managers point to difficult cultural barriers in attempting to implement the 'new organization' and the 'new managerial work'. The authors concur with the managers' scepticism about claims made for the new management theory. The practical problems in implementing the theory are underestimated, and there are flaws in the theory itself, e.g. the assumption that employers and employees' interests can be made to coincide by inducing them to adopt a different philosophy or mindset. Date: 1994 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eurman:v:12:y:1994:i:4:p:454-461 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article European Management Journal is currently edited by Michael Haenlein More articles in European Management Journal from Elsevier |
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