Return to Judgement

The Case for Post-Infantilized Management
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4443-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Today’s organizations are increasingly complex with many structures, practices and rules to follow. While the organizational head – an administrative knowing better class - becomes larger, the space for people doing the core job of the organization to think outside the box and take personal responsibility shrinks.

How can we tackle this and give workers more space to use their judgement?

Drawing on cases from universities, healthcare and other industries, this book reveals how the growth of management, policies and expertise are often counterproductive. The authors provide solutions for rethinking work and organization and to encourage what they call post-infantilized management.

Highlighting key debates around organizations and bureaucracy, this book presents an alternative vision for the future of work and management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alvesson, Mats

Nørmark, Dennis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. How It Used To Be Simpler

2. Excess of Administrators and Knowledge Workers

3. The Colonisation of the Lifeworld

4. The Rise of Managerialism and the Decline of Productivity

5. A World of Imperfections and Vulnerabilities

6. The New Unfreedom

7. The (False?) Need for Regulation and Improvement

8. Judgement As the Key Principle

9. Post-Infantilized Management

10. Conclusion and Perspectives

Über Autor(innen)

Mats Alvesson is Professor at the University of Bath, Lund University and City University of London.

Dennis Nørmark is an anthropologist, author and speaker.