Describe the meaning and utility of critical management studies and show how it may affect business practices. We live in a fast-paced society, and change is inevitable. The society continuous to evolve according to the demands of time and change is our way of coping up. Changes do not only apply to people, things, and…
Critical management studies or CMS collectively form a broad discipline that generally centers on critiquing management practices in business organizations and non-profit organizations. It is also considered as a movement that has emerged to study and even question the authority of established management practices as opposed to merely developing management principles and legitimizing the function…
Introduction The word “critical” in critical management studies historically refers to the “Critical Theory” of the Frankfurt School (Visser, 2010). Its meaning also relates well to the labor process theory, critical realism, postmodern, and poststructuralist approaches used and integrated with management theory and business organizations (Visser, 2010). Critical management offers alternatives to popular management theories…