MGC1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Thomas Kuhn, Center For American Progress, Scientific Management
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The management team is responsible for directly supporting and o activating the work efforts and performance accomplishments of others (cid:8213) connect to classical theories (4 principles of taylorist) Centres around technical activity o: managers = experts. Amid the confusion and uncertainty about what management is, o there has been a tendency to privilege one meaning: management as a universal process that comprises a number of technical function o. Science is not purely objective, but has a subjective element o ideas that disrupt (consensus of experts) All knowledge is derived from and sustained by social interaction. Knowledge is not universal, but rather a product of particular o o social and historical context o become aware when things go wrong. Social construction is often unconscious, and we often only. Paradigms (burrell and morgan s paradigm 1979) o o o o. A subjective reality, product of cognition and therefore personal.