Isn't "critical" management about challenging what is "objective"?
Jim McDonald
University of Southern Queensland
-----Original Message-----
From: Eugenia Kemble, Shanker Inst.
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: 9/14/01 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: debate platform
You're instincts are right. It would seem that serious, objective
academic
discussion on its designated agenda is not what this group is really
about.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Bush [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: debate platform
>
> Anyone know how to unsubscribe from this list?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Critical Perspectives on Work, Management and Organization
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Steffen Bohm
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 4:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: debate platform
>
>
> why this constant attempts to separate politics from management? i
would
> say
> that what happened yesterday has a lot to do with the way global
> anglo-saxon
> management has colonized this world, and if anywhere, this is the
right
> place
> and time to start engaging in a serious discussion about it.
> what kind of academic objectivity are you referring to?, the one that
has
> successfully managed to disconnect itself from the 'objective reality'
of
> millions of people on the 'ground' who suffer as the result of global
> corporatism?
> i think we should mourn the thousands of people who lost their lives
> yesterday.
> but hopefully this will not lead to some sort of paralysis and hiding
in
> academic towers of babel. we need to discuss these issues maturely, we
> need
> to
> develop reasons that help us to understand what happened yesterday.
the
> media
> won't do it for us. the mainstream management scholar crowd won't do
it
> either.
>
> steffen
>
>
>
> Erik Bush wrote:
>
> > Peter:
> >
> > Frankly,
> >
> > I don't want the philosophical rantings of either side of the debate
to
> clog
> > my email utility. Save that for your dinner tables, I signed up for
> this
> > forum to discuss issues of work, organization and management. While
a
> case
> > can be made that obviously someone mismanaged something, somewhere,
I
> would
> > hope this particular forum remains academically objective, which I
do
> not
> > think will occur when we base the discussion on political issues.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Critical Perspectives on Work, Management and Organization
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of PM Hamilton
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 3:55 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: debate platform
> >
> > Why not use this forum as a debate platform. Given events like
those
> > today it kind of puts debates about critical management studies
> > slightly into the shade.
> >
> > Peter
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