Management and Theories of Organizations in the 1990s: Toward a Critical Radical Humanism?
批评主流管理理论缺乏理论深度,主张用激进人文主义和新马克思主义视角替代功能主义传统,以帮助管理者理解如何将被动顺从的员工转变为主动合作的员工。
The author argues that the present mainstream writings on, and debates about “new” ideas of management and theories of organization, lack adequate theoretical assumptions and background. He proposes that those who question the future and efficiency of Western organizations need to rely more on a radical-humanistic and neo-Marxist conceptualization than on the functionalistic tradition. Therefore, management theorists and practitioners should integrate such a concept in order to better understand how to transform the passive-obedient Taylorist employee into an active-cooperative one. To achieve a truly renewed form of management, researchers must adopt a global view of humankind, in order to give workers a significant measure of control over their own environments and working conditions.