The Use of Management Fashions in Change Processes
摘要
By their nature, management fashions are very similar to religions. A path is promised by which work—and, more broadly, life—can once again come to have meaning. Principles are praised that can be used to enable one to reach new levels of consciousness. Catastrophes are prophesied if one does not commit oneself to the new world of thought. What is promised is the salvation not only of the individual, but of the whole world (according to the analyses in, for example, Furnham 2004, p. 4; Collins 2020, p. 135ff.).