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Is management a personal or collaborative process? What outside factors affect managers on a day-to-day basis?
Traditional thinking can often give the impression that being objective, rational, dispassionate and independent are prerequisites for being a manager. However it’s quite possible many managers could be caught in a whirlwind of outside influences, affecting their every action and it’s these pressures that critical reflective approaches seek to expose by questioning many of the invisible and informal structures that exist within companies. In this audio collection Caroline Ramsey, Senior Lecturer in Management Practice at The Open University, argues that management is a social, political and moral process, and that knowing this can be of enormous help in developing your own executive practice.

Business Conversation Discussion Management Education Higher Education
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1 minutes
Episodes
5
Years Active
2013
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Introduction to Critical Reflection

Introduction to Critical Reflection

What is Critical Reflection?
00:01:41  |   Tue 05 Feb 2013
What is management?

What is management?

Are managers dispassionate and rational, or are they shaped by complex dynamics?
00:01:12  |   Tue 05 Feb 2013
The value of generosity in management

The value of generosity in management

Is the idea of being generous compatible with the tough world of business?
00:00:55  |   Tue 05 Feb 2013
The value of improvisation in management

The value of improvisation in management

Can ideas from improvised Jazz help you improve your management practice?
00:00:48  |   Tue 05 Feb 2013
The value of conversation in management

The value of conversation in management

Conversations, rather than individual intentions, can have the biggest impact on our management decisions.
00:01:52  |   Tue 05 Feb 2013
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