Abstract:
In the manifold excesses of current Anglo-American managerial praxis, from short-term time horizons, grossly
distorted expressions of managerial prerogatives and remuneration rationales and a calculated brutality far in excess of
any Human Relations sensitivity, the need to inflate shareholder perceptions of the “bottom line” has led to a managerial
immorality that staggers many ethical and stakeholders’ boundaries. Post Enron, Tyco and others, can much change? Are
all senior managers doomed to the moral/ethical vacuum of the “bottom line”? With remuneration packages deliberately
focused around an economic-rationalist “brutality,” what reflective space, what discourse allows and enables moments of
remorse/regret and accommodates the inevitable need for personal accountability and attempts at restitution? Is it merely
recourse to recalcitrant legal/governance codes that provides for accounting for managerial incompetence and ideologized
greed? How will management discourse remember the current regressive nature of managerial behaviour? How will
Knowledge Management, in full flight with rhetoric about the importance of Tacit Knowledge, deal with organizational incompetence?
