Cooke, Bill. O GERENCIAMENTO DO (TERCEIRO) MUNDORAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas [en línea] 2004, 44 (Julio-Septiembre):[fecha de consulta: 1 de julio de 2012] Disponible en:< http://redalyc. uaemex. mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed.... more
Cooke, Bill. O GERENCIAMENTO DO (TERCEIRO) MUNDORAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas [en línea] 2004, 44 (Julio-Septiembre):[fecha de consulta: 1 de julio de 2012] Disponible en:< http://redalyc. uaemex. mx/src/inicio/ArtPdfRed. jsp? iCve= 155117750006> ISSN 0034-7590
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Managerial applications of action research (AR)(eg in Organization Development) have been critiqued as cooptational. Their participatory focus on means over ends of change, on micro-, intra-organizational issues, and the tacit but... more
Managerial applications of action research (AR)(eg in Organization Development) have been critiqued as cooptational. Their participatory focus on means over ends of change, on micro-, intra-organizational issues, and the tacit but questionable claim to rigour, are said to conceal and reinforce existing power relationships, rather than deliver the meaningful empowerment promised. This article shows an empirical connection between the Cold War US and these problematic features of today's managerialist AR. Drawing on ...
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This article argues that two related concepts, process consultation and, in particular, the clinical perspective, developed by the organizational psychologist Edgar Schein, can improve the understanding, teaching and conduct of... more
This article argues that two related concepts, process consultation and, in particular, the clinical perspective, developed by the organizational psychologist Edgar Schein, can improve the understanding, teaching and conduct of development practice. Process consultation, which is more than just the application of so-called process approaches, and the clinical perspective are described, and the case for them is put, in relation to contrasts with ethnography and action research and in the light of contemporary debates about the ...
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An introduction to management for quality management for quality and local government quality, consumerism and citizenship the achievement of management for quality management for quality in a multi-agency context quality in localities -... more
An introduction to management for quality management for quality and local government quality, consumerism and citizenship the achievement of management for quality management for quality in a multi-agency context quality in localities - a community focus? achieving quality in local government.
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Participatory and process-driven social interventions have a history that dates back to before 1945. Hitherto this history has been presented within management theory as that of Organization Development (OD). An alternative history of OD... more
Participatory and process-driven social interventions have a history that dates back to before 1945. Hitherto this history has been presented within management theory as that of Organization Development (OD). An alternative history of OD is presented in this paper, focusing on the contributions of John Collier, Kurt Lewin, Ronald Lippitt and colleagues, and Edgar Schein. This reveals how OD has been constructed from methodologies invented for economic and social development, and summarizes the extensive and critical knowledge ...
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This paper is about the relationship between management, a First World discipline, and the Third World. Management is widely assumed to apply in organizations in modern, or postmodern, societies. However, a distinctive form of management,... more
This paper is about the relationship between management, a First World discipline, and the Third World. Management is widely assumed to apply in organizations in modern, or postmodern, societies. However, a distinctive form of management, Development Administration and Management (DAM), exists and is applied to Third World nation-states, which are deemed in the First World to require modernization. This article sets out the institutional and conceptual separation and crossover between management and DAM. It ...
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The focus of this chapter is what social psychology tells us about interactions within groups of people, drawing on the subset of social psychology theory typically described as being concerned with'group process' or'group... more
The focus of this chapter is what social psychology tells us about interactions within groups of people, drawing on the subset of social psychology theory typically described as being concerned with'group process' or'group dynamics'. It considers how group interactions manifest themselves in four different ways that are problematic for the proponents of participatory development (risky shift, Abilene paradox, groupthink and coercive persuasion). The four analyses suggest that there are social psychological limits to what ...
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About the Editors Bill Cooke is director of the MA programme in Development Ad-ministration and Management at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. He teaches change management, organizational... more
About the Editors Bill Cooke is director of the MA programme in Development Ad-ministration and Management at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester. He teaches change management, organizational behaviour and ...
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Rules of thumb for participatory change agents. Cooke, B (2004) Rules of thumb for participatory change agents. In: From Participation to Emancipation? Zed Books, London, pp. 42-58. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type:... more
Rules of thumb for participatory change agents. Cooke, B (2004) Rules of thumb for participatory change agents. In: From Participation to Emancipation? Zed Books, London, pp. 42-58. Full text not available from this repository. Item Type: Book Section. ...
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Organization 6(1) Articles agement discourse'}. It demonstrates how ideas developed by or for the political left have been incorporated as central concepts in that discourse. It also reveals how this debt to the left has continued to... more
Organization 6(1) Articles agement discourse'}. It demonstrates how ideas developed by or for the political left have been incorporated as central concepts in that discourse. It also reveals how this debt to the left has continued to be excluded from the managerialist history of the ...
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O Brasil está crescendo e as empresas valorizam cada vez mais o capital humano, disputando talentos e se esforçando para desenvolver líderes. Paradoxalmente, a gestão de pessoas ruma para a irrelevância. Visitar sua história ajuda a... more
O Brasil está crescendo e as empresas valorizam cada vez mais o capital humano, disputando talentos e se esforçando para desenvolver líderes. Paradoxalmente, a gestão de pessoas ruma para a irrelevância. Visitar sua história ajuda a entender a realidade desta área e a indicar possíveis caminhos para o futuro.
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American slavery has been wrongfully excluded from histories of management. By 1860, when the historical orthodoxy has modern management emerging on the railroads, 38,000 managers were managing the 4 million slaves working in the US... more
American slavery has been wrongfully excluded from histories of management. By 1860, when the historical orthodoxy has modern management emerging on the railroads, 38,000 managers were managing the 4 million slaves working in the US economy.
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This is about how the World Bank 'manages' the World. It takes the idea of (International) Development Management which owes an unacknowledged debt to colonial administration, specifically to the colonial adminstration's... more
This is about how the World Bank 'manages' the World. It takes the idea of (International) Development Management which owes an unacknowledged debt to colonial administration, specifically to the colonial adminstration's 'indirect rule'. Development management, as opposed to development administration, has newly adopted a specific set of managerialist participatory methods, to achieve'ownership'of development interventions. These methods are particularly evident in World Bank/imf implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (prsp s) and Comprehensive Development Frameworks (cdf s).
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RESUMO A Gestão de Recursos Humanos (GRH), como campo prático da Administração de Empresas e como área de ensino e pesquisa, desenvolveu-se vigorosamente no Brasil. Este ensaio crítico tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise histórica... more
RESUMO A Gestão de Recursos Humanos (GRH), como campo prático da Administração de Empresas e como área de ensino e pesquisa, desenvolveu-se vigorosamente no Brasil. Este ensaio crítico tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise histórica dessa evolução nos últimos 60 anos. Para isso, caracterizamos e analisamos dois períodos: 19501980, o qual denominamos colonização; e 1980-2010, o qual denominamos neocolonização.
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This article is an empirical study of Brazilian management gurus, that is, Portuguese-speaking gurus who practise almost wholly in Brazil. It is based on secondary, and primary elite interview data, and finds that Brazilian gurus are... more
This article is an empirical study of Brazilian management gurus, that is, Portuguese-speaking gurus who practise almost wholly in Brazil. It is based on secondary, and primary elite interview data, and finds that Brazilian gurus are reflexive, national-culturally congruent, soft-HRM practitioners, a collective institution working with companies on the implementation of soft-HRM initiatives. Identifying Brazilian gurus in this way is our first contribution. Our second contribution is to provide an empirical account of the very existence and work of these particular national gurus, distinguished from international gurus (like Tom Peters), and not otherwise mentioned in the literature on gurus or soft-HRM. Our third contribution is to present gurus' own understandings of their practice in this soft-HRM role. This they relate to the Brazilian cultural context, and distinguish from that of business schools and motivational speakers. They also identify personally unique characteristi...
Research Interests: Business, Management, Marketing, Sociology, Latin American Studies, and 15 moreOrganizational Change, Organizational Culture, Human Resource Management, Brazil, Human Resource Management in the middle east, Organizational Development, International Management, Management Consulting, Business Management, Business and Management, Empirical Study, National Culture, Strategy Business, Management Gurus, and Business School
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Nonetheless, this collection does not critique the idea of participation per se. The editors note explicitly that they 'would resist being labelled anti-participation'(p. 13). Neither they nor their contributors suggest easily... more
Nonetheless, this collection does not critique the idea of participation per se. The editors note explicitly that they 'would resist being labelled anti-participation'(p. 13). Neither they nor their contributors suggest easily replicable alternatives upon which to base development ...
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This paper is about the field of development management (previously development administration) and its continuities with the processes of imperial rule known as colonial administration. Development administration/management represents... more
This paper is about the field of development management (previously development administration) and its continuities with the processes of imperial rule known as colonial administration. Development administration/management represents itself as a subset of public administration/public sector management. However, this conceals its status as First World discourse about how the Third World should be managed.
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In the received history of international development, its management or development- management for short, emerged from the remnants of colonial administration. From here, development-management gr...
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Abstract This article is constructed around the counterfactual of Abraham Maslow being made to testify before a McCarthy-type investigation in the US ColdWar era. We set out the extent to which Maslow was, factually, engaged with the... more
Abstract This article is constructed around the counterfactual of Abraham Maslow being made to testify before a McCarthy-type investigation in the US ColdWar era. We set out the extent to which Maslow was, factually, engaged with the internal US Cold War and note his surveillance by the FBI. This lends plausibility to our counterfactual case: there were episodes in Maslow&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#x27;s life and work which rendered him vulnerable to McCarthyite inquisition. Two sets of consequences for humanism in management history of this initial ...
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This paper is about the field of development management (previously development administration) and its continuities with the processes of imperial rule known as colonial administration. Development administration/ management represents... more
This paper is about the field of development management (previously development administration) and its continuities with the processes of imperial rule known as colonial administration. Development administration/ management represents itself as a subset of public administration/ public sector management. However, this conceals its status as First World discourse about how the Third World should be managed. Moreover, while development management recognizes the continuity between itself and post-1945 development administration, its advocacy of participatory methodologies, the cause of the poor and the marginalized, and democratization are seen as new, and as implying a clear break with colonial/neo-colonialist administrative practice. This paper challenges this orthodoxy on the basis of three overlapping arguments. First, understandings of the benefits of participation presented by advocates of development management are naive and fail to understand its potentialities as a control m...
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Arguably there is only one ‘ eureka’ in management history, one sudden moment of specific insight and invention. This is the July 1946 New Britain, Connecticut Workshop organized by Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) the ’ the intellectual father of... more
Arguably there is only one ‘ eureka’ in management history, one sudden moment of specific insight and invention. This is the July 1946 New Britain, Connecticut Workshop organized by Kurt Lewin (1890-1947) the ’ the intellectual father of contemporary theories of applied behavioral science, action research and planned change’ (Schein 1980:238). That summer, at that this workshop on inter-ethnic relations, participants and facilitators had the sudden and accidental insight that their interpersonal interactions were a source of data in themselves, from which profound insight and learning could be derived. This insight into the importance of ‘here and now’ group interactions founded group dynamics, the T-group movement, ideas of team development and team building, not least as part of change management processes. Lewin died tragically soon after the workshop, having published little on his emergent ideas. This paper analyses Lewin’s own new discovered personal speaking notes written dur...
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Este artigo discute a existência de uma forma particular de gerencialismo - 'SWIMMING', Administração e gestão do Desenvolvimento no Norte Atlântico (‘North Atlantic Development Administration and Management’ - sigla em Inglês –... more
Este artigo discute a existência de uma forma particular de gerencialismo - 'SWIMMING', Administração e gestão do Desenvolvimento no Norte Atlântico (‘North Atlantic Development Administration and Management’ - sigla em Inglês – NADAM - acrônimo em Inglês – SWIMMING). A análise empírica de documentos de projetos do Banco Mundial, a partir de 2009, fornece aos atores do Atlântico Norte, como o Banco Mundial, os privilégios de representação, inclusão e exclusão da SWIMMING. A análise revela como SWIMMING exige atores brasileiros a serem representados como suplicantes e merecedores, usando termos como "diligente" e "firme” para legitimar os beneficiários dos empréstimos do Banco Mundial. Ele também revela como os projetos são gerenciados para contornar e substituir as possibilidades de mudança democrática através de meios constitucionais, como as eleições. Tal mudança é apresentada nos documentos de gestão dos projetos como um "risco", com os atores po...
CHAPTER 3 Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism Bill Cooke In Culture and Impevialism (1994), Edward Said sers our to reconnect cultural forms, norably the novel," with the impetial processes of which they were manifesrly... more
CHAPTER 3 Managing Organizational Culture and Imperialism Bill Cooke In Culture and Impevialism (1994), Edward Said sers our to reconnect cultural forms, norably the novel," with the impetial processes of which they were manifesrly and unconcealedly a part"(1994: xv). Thus he ...
Research Interests: Management, Business Administration, Native American Studies, Action Research, Postcolonial Studies, and 9 moreOrganizational Culture, Change Management, Group Dynamics, Management History, Organizational Development, Colonial Administration, History of Business Management, Innovation & Change Management, and Post Colonialism
Before the aphorism &amp;amp;#x27;no research without action, no action without research&amp;amp;#x27;was ever attributed to Kurt Lewin, the similar &amp;amp;#x27;no research without therapy, no therapy without... more
Before the aphorism &amp;amp;#x27;no research without action, no action without research&amp;amp;#x27;was ever attributed to Kurt Lewin, the similar &amp;amp;#x27;no research without therapy, no therapy without research&amp;amp;#x27;was current in the Tavistock Clinic, from which the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) emerged in 1946 (Dicks 1970). In the proposal presented to Alan Gregg of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1945, that was to lead to the TIHR&amp;amp;#x27;s founding, the meaning of research in this sense was made clear (Cooke 2008). The &amp;amp;#x27;... without research&amp;amp;#x27;part of the ...
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This article makes the case for situating understandings of Abraham Maslow and his ideas within Cold War America. After discussing the general significance of Maslow, we set out the historical conditions of Cold War culture and social... more
This article makes the case for situating understandings of Abraham Maslow and his ideas within Cold War America. After discussing the general significance of Maslow, we set out the historical conditions of Cold War culture and social institutions in the United States. We then make links between these conditions and Maslow’s life, his work, and his reflexive awareness of them. This analysis maps, inter alia, Maslow’s place and agency in the Cold War academy and his positions on (un)Americanism, liberalism, religion and secularism, and modernization and Marx. The links identified reveal new explanations of Maslow’s life, work, and significance in the management canon and indicate that the Cold War should be considered as a hitherto missing grand narrative, within which the history of management ideas more generally should be situated.
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This chapter focuses primarily on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). It explores in particular its conception of the social and its vision of the role of the professional, in both of which the method is distinct from Beneficiary... more
This chapter focuses primarily on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). It explores in particular its conception of the social and its vision of the role of the professional, in both of which the method is distinct from Beneficiary Assessment and Social Analysis. The chapter then assesses ...
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In organizing the sessions I was keen, recognizing that there was what the editors of Organization subsequently called &amp;amp;#x27;a mood of reflection in CMS&amp;amp;#x27;, that we try and identify ways forward rather than... more
In organizing the sessions I was keen, recognizing that there was what the editors of Organization subsequently called &amp;amp;#x27;a mood of reflection in CMS&amp;amp;#x27;, that we try and identify ways forward rather than merely critique. It is arguable, though, that in any proposal to do something new is an implicit concern about what has gone before. A particular (and very rare) pleasure for me as an organizer here was being able to put together a panel of people who I like and respect, and who I thought would have something serious to say. I was ...