ABSTRACT
This chapter provides answers to the following management studies questions: Doing management, what are practitioners doing? How do management idea families inform understanding about management? What have been the most influential management idea families? How could management good practices be informed by questioning traditional histories of management? It focuses on management practices in terms of a placement student attempting to solve the mystery of management and Chartered Management Institute's promotion of their Management Manifesto. Neo-human relations was the fifth management idea family and described as the most popular management idea family. These management ideas can be traced back to the late 1950s and were unified around a common espoused belief in employee desires to grow and develop on the job. Change management's very construction has been a political process which has written the left out, and shaped an understanding of the field as technocratic and ideologically neutral.
