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Look at the copycat – with spanish subtitles!!
Read and enjoy!
… I have to continue to write about the film. Today at the lecture in “Ekonomi och Ledarskap i Teknikintensiv verksamhet” our teacher (cannot remeber the name) totally agreed on the concusion we came up with in the film. She first drew paralells between McGregor’s theories, and did thereafter connect it to the situation of today (she didn’t express herself with the term Generation Y but meant that the new employees are more in the theory Y direction). Interesting. Maybe we should send her the link…
Finishing my second assigment, should be ready any minute
Try searching on “management through surveillance” on Google. It’s unbelieveable that the first number of hits actually are links to bloggs/forums where our film is debated. Success
…is my Individual Assignment 1. Just follow the link
Great point there Jakob. It is almost frightening to think of the almost non-existing amount of female management theorists, who have been given a seat around the big management-guru-table…
What hits me when reading your post, is how small the list of “big theorists” really is.
Machiavelli,
Fayol,
Taylor,
Weber,
Follett,
Maslow,
Drucker,
Hofstede,
Mintzberg
and Senge
After some weeks of intese search for ideas to the movie and to the individual assignments, it can be established that the guys above have given us a huge part of the ideas used today. Why is that? How come these people are so famous? Are they so much better than the other 99 % of the management theorists, and most of all: have they all come up with their ideas alone? How big is the cooperation between them? Did Maslow contact McGregor in oder to get feedback on his motivation theory and vice versa? And did Herzberg call McGregor and ask for advice before he launched his two-factor theory? I am very interested in these relations between guys, who obviously are doing the same thing, but with small variations.
Thanks David, by the way, for letting us write another couple of days. Will publish my first text today. Over and out
Read the text from the two gentlemen above, presented on Davids blog. It kinda says: “Being manager is really difficult. You practicly need five brains. You need: self reflectiveness, but at the same time analytical skills. You have to be collaborativ but also capable of taking action on your own. On top of this you need to be sophisticated and have experience”
I would not be a good manager today because:
- Lack of experience and therefore a lame worldly mind-set
- Difficulties balancing my own actions and my collaboration
But: I am obviously self reflecting, and what you do not have today can be won tomorrow!
See you tomorrow
What really interest me in terms of management are people and the social behaviour of people – How different personalities behave in different situations and how to lead those different personality types. Even though passing the course “Behavioural management control” at KTH and despite the fact that I visited a 6-hour seminar in Germany about such questions, I have not even thought of the relation between management and social anthropology. After having a discussion with my girlfriend, the link between those disciplines is obvious.
The link becomes even clearer, when trusting the definitions on Wikipedia:
Social Anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups
Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals
The concise conclusion is that a manager with knowledge in social anthropology would have better experience in how to “get people together” and thereby “accomplish desired goals”, since the “behavior in social groups” is the very fundament of management.
This connection has scientific sources. Linstead, Stephen states that:
social anthropology as a field science has great potential for informing multi-disciplinary research in management both conceptually and methodologically (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/bjom/1997/00000008/00000001/art00010;jsessionid=5sh6ahb0h9s1v.alexandra)
The field seems however to be relatively unexplored. Is for example social anthropology included in MBA studies? A closer look will be made on this – will be back!
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