Organisational Management isn’t what you think it is. It’s not all mechanistic anymore. It’s not all about managerial omnipotence. It’s not all economico-technological determinism. We’re not all about reductionist models.
It’s not about hierarchies of power. We’re against the organizational monoculture. We’re for pluralism! The small! The local! It’s about policy and ecosystem changes that might allow alternative businesses to grow.
The margins, not the centre: that’s where we should look for future modes of organising. No more giganticism. We need to explore an organizational variety. We need to open up diverse potentialities. We have to counter the thinning out of the social imagination.
It’s about solidarity, stewardship, dignity, compassion and care. You know – sowing seeds of hope.
It’s not about exclusion or privatisation. This campus is a context for sociality. Space for human coexistence in relationships and interactions. We want to open the future, rather than closing it down. We want to challenge the managerialist imaginarium …
Forget the Organisational Management textbooks. Tear them up! Forget the O.M. pundits. Participative management – that’s what we’re looking at. Organisation as artistry: that’s what we want to explore. Management as an artform.
And that’s part of the reason we’ve brought you guys on board. It’s about transboundary knowledge exchange, production and transfer.
Work in Progress 