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The Rise and Fall of Management
Ashgate Publishing, Nov 2009, Pages: 298
Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has. Gordon Pearson, who has spent equal parts of his long career as a practising manager and a management educator, clarifies through rigorous historical review the difficult issues around management with which we struggle today, such as why management custom and practice so often lead to contravention of the law.
Pearson reviews how management became a practice and body of understanding, the development of its crucial role in economic progress, and then how its corruption came about as a result of malign theory, leading to the dominance of the bonus payment culture and short term deal-making that plague us today. Understanding management's past, suggests Pearson, will help its improvement for the future. Contributing to that understanding, this challenging book sheds light on how management might be renewed and on the benign role it could play if freed from the restraints of inappropriate economic theory.
This book is not just a history or a sociological analysis of management. It gives a broad, practically informed, critical view of the subject that will be welcomed by any reader with a professional or an academic interest in practice, theory, and context.
Authors bio:
Dr. Gordon Pearson worked for a number of large industrial concerns and their overseas subsidiaries as a planning specialist, a specialist in mergers and acquisitions, and as a senior executive with line responsibility for most major management functions. After twenty years in industry including management consultancy, he moved into academe, writing his first book and completing a Ph.D. in strategy, innovation and culture at Manchester Business School.
Dr. Pearson then pursued a teaching career, moving to Keele University, where he served as Head of Department of Management, Director of MBA Programmes and Director of Keele Management Development Centre. He retains an Honorary Senior Research Fellowship. This is his sixth book.
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