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Language & Rationality

In: The Language of Managerialism

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  • Thomas Klikauer

    (Western Sydney University)

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One of the key terms in the language of Managerialism is the very rational-looking word: organisation. In almost all cases, an organisation simply means ‘business’—for-profit organisations with the raison d’être of profit-making. This drives the entire system. Closely followed by the term to organise. Both these words are ringing in the ears of any manager, insistently. Inside business organisations, CEOs are so saturated with the idea that every bit of work has to be organised and then ideologically sold to the corporate apparatchiks lower down the ‘food chain’, as managers like to say.

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  • Thomas Klikauer, 2023. "Language & Rationality," Springer Books, in: The Language of Managerialism, chapter 6, pages 161-190, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-16379-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-16379-1_6
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