Langbeschreibung
Hoyle and Wallace illustrate with penetrating insight the perverse outcome of tightening management and leadership so much that it leads to three different forms, each with the same five characteristics, of what they call "managerialism": excessive micromanagement of schools in a sometimes futile and self-defeating quest for success' - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF IRONYIntroducing the Ironic PerspectiveEndemic Ambiguities The Preconditions Of IronyThe Ambiguities of Policy ImplementationPART TWO: IRONY AND MANAGERIALISMFrom Management to ManagerialismA Solution in Search of a ProblemPART THREE: THE RHETORIC OF MANAGERIALISM AND LEADERSHIPThe Myth of TransformationTransmissional Leadership for Political TransformationPART FOUR: THE IRONIC RESPONSE AND THE FUTURE OF MANAGERIALISMPatterns of Ironic ResponseThe Ironic Orientation and Professional PracticeTemperate Leadership and Management Living With Irony