Postcritical Management Studies [electronic resource] : Philosophical Investigations / by Ghislain Deslandes.

Introduction -- Part I: From proto-management to conflicting interpretations -- Chapter 1. Management as a philosophical problem -- Chapter 2. Continental philosophy and post-management -- Chapter 3. The five senses of management -- Part II: Rethinking management -- Chapter 4. Organizations and the subjective body -- Chapter 5."Desaffectio societatis" -- Chapter 6. Individual experience at a time of social acceleration -- Part III: Rebuilding management -- Chapter 7. The powerlessness of the powerful -- Chapter 8. Working without joy? -- Chapter 9. Redefining "management" -- Conclusion.

This book is the first of its kind to offer a new definition of contemporary management. It uses Henry's philosophy and takes the real, sensitive and pathetic subjectivity of individuals as the starting point of the analysis as opposed to the usual large categories of representations; resources; images; and discourses. This book thus proposes to rethink management by insisting on the dialectic of strength and vulnerability; its power of constraint, imitation and imagination; and finally its framework of action situated in a fourfold concern for the self, for people, for institutions and for the environment. These different notions are useful in order to experience a deeper understanding of management that is free from the obsolescence of the distant recommendations of ancient protomanagement and the outdated and dubious prescriptions of the so-called "scientific management".