Reason in Practice
The Journal of Philosophy of Management

One-Day Conference

INTRODUCING PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT

London School of Economics

Friday 22 June 10am - 5pm

This informal conference is open to philosophers, management researchers and
teachers and practising managers. It offers an opportunity to

 Explore the nature and scope of philosophy of management and the value of
applying comprehensive philosophical scrutiny to management in theory and
practice

 Sample ways in which it is being practised

 Assess and debate its distinctive contribution

 Influence the direction of work in the field

 Network with thinkers active in philosophy and management


Programme

1.  INTRODUCING PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT
 The Need, Scope, Methods and Use
      Nigel Laurie and Christopher Cherry

  The Philosophies of Critical Management
       Martin Parker

2. DOING PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT

   Can There Be Such a Thing as "Knowledge"
        in Management? Paul Griseri

   Experience and Excess: Bergson on Best
       Practice; Bataille on Motivation
       Stephen Linstead

   The Quality Movement: Linguistic Mistake?
        Ideological Intrusion? Or What?
        Michael Loughlin

3. DEVELOPING PHILOSOPHY OF MANAGEMENT

    Panel Discussion

Speakers

CHRISTOPHER CHERRY
Reader in Moral Philosophy, University of Kent, formerly Director of
Postgraduate Studies in Philosophy and Master of Eliot College 1990-95. Has
published numerous articles. His most recent book (with others) is Values
and the Person. Experience includes  Assistant Principal at the Ministry of
Health.
Specialist Assessor for Philosophy for the HEFC for Wales 1995-96. Member
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Advisory Group on Medical Ethics since 1992.Chair
Editorial Board of Reason in Practice

PAUL GRISERI
Part-time Lecturer in Management, University College, London. Freelance
teacher and author of Managing Values (Macmillan 1998), In Search of
Business Ethics (with J Groucutt, FT 1998) and Management Research
(forthcoming, Palgrave). Degree and doctorate in Philosophy. Director, MBA
programme at London Guildhall University (1993-98). Columnist on business
for CompuServe.

NIGEL LAURIE
Management Consultant and Editor and Publisher, Reason in Practice. Chair,
Society of Consultant Philosophers. Philosophy degrees from Glasgow and
Guelph. Clients include major public and private sector organisations in
Europe, the USA, Middle East and Asia. Fellow of the Institute of Management
Consultancy.

STEPHEN LINSTEAD
Professor of Management (designate) University of Essex, co-founder, British
Academy of Management Philosophy of Organisation Special Interest Group.
Author of  Management: A Critical Text (Macmillan 1999), co-author Sex, Work
and Sex Work (Routledge 2000), co-editor of Understanding Management (Sage,
1996). Consultancy clients include: British Aerospace, BNFL, the NHS,
British Airways, Environmental Protection Department (Hong Kong), Hong Kong
Mass Transit Railway Corporation

MICHAEL LOUGHLIN
Lecturer in Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University. Author of
Ethics, Management and Mythology: The Philosophy and Politics of
Contemporary Health Services Management (Hochland and Hochland 2001)
Articles address quality and excellence; rationality harm and risk; the
management of illness; rationing, barbarity and the economist's perspective;
on the meaning of 'applied philosophy'. Features Editor for Health Care
Analysis

MARTIN PARKER
Reader in Social and Organisational Theory and Head (designate) of the
Department of Management, Keele University. Research and writing covers the
sociology of culture, social and organisational theory with particular
reference to modernism, ethics and utopias. His most recent book is
Organisational Culture and Identity (Sage, 2000) and he edited Ethics and
Organisation (Sage, 1999).

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