The Language of Managerialism: Organizational Communication or an Ideological Tool?

✍ Scribed by Thomas Klikauer

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explains how management became Managerialism and how the language of managerialism was developed.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the managerialism-language interface, the book argues that firstly, managerialism itself has developed its distinctive language; and secondly, the two concepts of managerialism and language mutually depend upon each other. 

Written from the critical media studies perspective of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, the book reaches beyond simple business communication, illustrating how the language of managerialism is colonising the non-corporate lifeworld. The book concludes by offering fresh ideas on how to move beyond the language of managerialism.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgement
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introducing the Language of Managerialism
Managerialism = Management + Ideology + Expansion
Managerialism and Neoliberalism
Managerialism’s Ideology
The Structure of the Book
Chapter 2: Models of Managerialism
Chapter 3: The Twelve Language Areas of Managerialism
Chapter 4: The Language of Managerialism and its Infiltration of the Lifeworld
Chapter 5: Business Schools and the Language of Managerialism
Chapter 6: Language and Rationality
Chapter 7: Corporate Apparatchiks and Superlatives
Chapter 8: The Curse of the Language of Managerialism
2: Models of Managerialism
The Organisational Model of Managerialism
The Global Model of Managerialism
The Trident Model of Managerialism
Neo-Taylorist Managerialism
Entrepreneurial Managerialism
Cultural Managerialism
The Role of Language in the Models of Managerialism
3: The Twelve Language Areas of Managerialism
Language Area One: Profits and Shareholder Value
Language Area Two: The Specifics of an Ideological Language
Language Area Three: Growth
Language Area Four: Competition
Language Area Five: Ethics and Morality
Language Area Six: Participation and Democracy
Language Area Seven: Quantification and Numbers
Language Area Eight: Humanisation and Dehumanisation
Language Area Nine: Exploitation
Language Area Ten: Long-Termism Versus Short-Termism
Language Area Eleven: Sustainability and the Environment
Language Area Twelve: Homogenisation
Twelve Areas of Language Use in Managerialism
4: The Language of Managerialism and Its Infiltration of the Lifeworld
5: Business Schools and the Language of Managerialism
The Business Schools’ Jargon of Managerialism
6: Language & Rationality
7: Corporate Apparatchiks and Superlatives
8: Conclusion: The Curse of the Language of Managerialism
Intellectual Self-Defence
Managerialism and the Language of Managerialism
Methods to Eliminate the Language of Managerialism
Index