Beyond Management. - Review - book review

Ian Lennie: Beyond Management

1999, London: Sage. 160 pages.

Beyond Management explores the relevance of new insights in cultural studies and social theory to the theory and practice of organization. The book relates the everyday experience of managers to some central theories of management, and shows how the traditional accounts of the manager's role can lead to disorganization and disorder rather than the reverse. Lennie describes how some of the key ideas from postmodern, deconstructionist thought can provide a stronger and more positive understanding of the daily realities of management. He shows us how language, and particularly metaphor, creates organization, and informs us about managing in ways which are embodied and creative. This book will give students a sense of the practical relevance of contemporary theory and will offer managers a radically different way of perceiving their enterprise and evaluating its effectiveness.

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