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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