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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
Individually these 'managementspeak' terms are at worst meaningless, and at best synonyms dignifying concepts that are totally banal.
Collectively they form a 'secret language' separating a self-styled elect from the uninitiated. It's just a more sophisticated version of the playground catcall 'I know something you don't'.
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Not at all. At least certaily not in the majority of cases.
Communication is an absolutely key dimension of successful management and words, especially words in common use, are not a good means of communicating information or ideas.
It follows that the introduction of a new word with a definition of what it entails results in everyone then knowing that when they hear that word the factors that are involved.
The bottom line is that as a means to improve communications and reduce errors, as a techniqe and practice,
IT WORKS.
If your complaint was concerning some of the banal expressions such as “let’s run it up the flagpole” then in that case I would totally agree, but where the use of “human resources” or “customer facing” and the like are involved I would not.
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
No surprise that members of this supposed elite are encouraged to think in PC terms, and PC = Frankfurt School = Pick-n-mix Marxism. We don't need to go through Das Kapital line by line. Your sanctimonious waffle about 'racism' marks you out as a graduate of the Pick-n-mix school. Were you and your parents really concerned about such matters when you were growing up in the '50s and '60s? I doubt it. Reprogramming came later.
The fact that those who say they believe in equality are almost invariably rather more equal than their fellows is all par for the course. In a society where the gap between rich and poor is greater than it has been for decades egalitarians need to be pretty seriously myopic.
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My word, you really DO have a chip on your shoulder! You also make assumptions and suppositions and draw conclusions that are so far from reality as to be laughable.
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
I have seen a number of perfectly normal people go through management training reprogramming and emerge as brainwashed PC idiots. Talk to any normal policeman and he'll tell the same story in spades.
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What is it about the job of a manager that you find so unsettling? Do you actually understand what the work of a manager involves? Do you understand the difference between junior, middle, and senior management for example? From what you write it would seem not.
To start with a manager is NOT a "boss", and Ive met more than a few boss’s, in fact most of them, who were certainly not managers, but that’s another matter.
A manager is someone who makes best use of resources using established or at times novel tools and methodologies in order to achieve this.
If those resources are human resources then one set of tools and methodologies are used, if physical or energy resources, then others.
It’s all about getting the best return on investment from the guy on the line making widgets, to the CEO looking after shareholder value.
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
I'm afraid that I tended to be a somewhat disruptive influence when the powers-that-be inflicted managerial-style courses on my department. As senior TU rep I made sure that these timewasting exercises were curtailed at appropriate times, usually when the guest bullsh*tter was in full flow.
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It's always possible to encounter a managemnet trainer who is a pillock or a management course from time to time that is simply stating the patently bleeding obvious, that's life, but maybe, just maybe if you actually understood what the role of a manager was you would be able to move off first base and see that what you assume to be BS are in fact proven techniques to maximise the use of resources within an organisation.
Maybe if you did you would find career opportunities opening up for you that are presently not only closed to you, but more than likely unknown by you at this time to even exist.
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Originally Posted by Mikeuk
I would define the bourgeoisie as that part of the brainless common herd that is raised above The Great Unwashed by personal hygiene alone.
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Then you are wrong in the correct use of the word.