Managing Britannia - Imprint Academic

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For more than thirty years the solution to all Britain's problems has been better management. As a result management schools dominate higher education and managers are at work everywhere developing 'strategies’ and ‘systems’ and quantifying ‘outcomes’. There are now more managers on the rail network than train drivers, yet the benefits of modern management of railways, schools, hospitals and universities are elusive. This is because ‘management’ does not exist—the academic study of ‘management science’ and the assumption that there are universal management skills are bogus. This book shows how modern management practices have all but destroyed politics, education, culture and religion—modern management is the cause of our national malaise.
Source: Guardian

Credit: Simon Hoggart

"A terrific new book... written in a straightforward, lucid fashion."

Source: Local Government Studies

"A salutary reminder that public service managers do need to maintain their critical faculties."

Source: Times Higher Education Supplement

Credit: Nigel Probert

"Protherough and Pick make the very valuable comment that 'academic' management attracts those unable to sustain academic careers in traditional subjects such as history or mathematics."

Source: Network

"This entertaining and instructive book is certainly a contribution to a collective awakening and deserves a wide readership."

Source: Organization

Credit: Martin Parker

"This book is a caustic and well timed attack on the culture of managerialism in Blair's Britain."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 01 January 2003
- ISBN-13: 9780907845539
- Extent: Main content page count : 220
- Code: 907845533
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 1.7 cm
- Weight: 300 grams
- List Price: £14.95
- ONIX Version 2.1, Version 3

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Title: Managing Britannia
Subtitle: Culture and Management in Modern Britain
Author: Robert Protherough, John Pick
Language: English
Publisher: Imprint Academic
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