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Media Capitalism

Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Media Capitalism

Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception

By: Thomas Klikauer

This book argues that media and capitalism no longer exist as separated entities, and posits three reasons why one can no longer exist without the other. Firstly, mass media have become indispensable to capitalism due to the media’s ability to sell the commodities of mass consumerism. Media capitalism also creates pro-capital attitudes among a target population and establishes an ideological hegemony. Thirdly, media capitalism provides mass deception to hide the pathologies of capitalism, which include mass poverty, rising inequalities, and the acceleration of global warming. To illuminate this, the book’s historical chapter traces the emergence of media capitalism. Its subsequent chapters show how media capitalism has infiltrated the public sphere, society, schools, universities, the world of work and finally, democracy. The book concludes by outlining how societies can transition from media capitalism to a post-media- capitalist society.

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3030879585

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Alternative für Deutschland: The AfD

Germany's New Nazis or another Populist Party?

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Alternative für Deutschland: The AfD

Germany's New Nazis or another Populist Party?

By: Thomas Klikauer

Right-wing populism has been on the rise in Europe and elsewhere. Germanys foremost populist party is called Alternative for Germany (AfD). Founded in 2013 and entering Germanys federal parliament in 2017, the AfD increasingly moved towards right-wing extremism. Today, the party is Germanys most successful nationalistic party. Following the populist playbook, the AfD started off with a simple neoliberal and anti-Europe message, but soon moved towards the extreme right. By 2017 the AfDs ultra-nationalistic wing had successfully outmanoeuvred the partys moderate and neoliberal leader Frauke Petry. Written from the standpoint of openness, pluralism, liberalism and democracy, this book examines the AfDs rise to fame, its successes, and the partys ideological links dating back to German Nazism of the 1930s. The author illuminates the partys ideological and institutional links to present-day Neo-Nazis; its close associations to the right-wing street movement Pegida; the recruitment of right-wing extremists and former Neo-Nazis into its parliamentarian ranks; its xenophobic, anti-Muslim, racist and anti-Semitic ideologies; and its relationship to the neo-fascist Identity Movement. A historical overview positions the AfD within Germanys political landscape. The work engages with the make-up of AfD voters and electoral successes; the partys relationship to anti-Semitism; and its dreams of re-establishing a mythical Aryan Volksgemeinschaft. Close attention is paid to the AfDs demagogic and nationalistic leader, Bjoern Hoecke, as well as the partys admiration for the radical right of neighbouring Austria. A final chapter examines the fascist character of the AfD as measured against Umberto Ecos fourteen elements of Ur-Fascism. Three questions are posed: Will the AfD lead to the end of German democracy? Is Germany moving towards another Third Reich? Is there another Hitler in the making?

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Liverpool University Press

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1782846808

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Media Capitalism

Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception

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Managing People in Organizations

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Managing People in Organizations

By: Thomas Klikauer

This new and engaging core textbook offers a unique line manager perspective that presents students with HRM topics and issues that they will be confronted with once they enter the world of work in a managerial role. It is a concise text that focuses on providing students with all they need to know to equip them with a comprehensive understanding of the role the (non-HR) manager plays in the day-to-day running of an organization. The author's deep understanding and wide-ranging knowledge of the subject matter means that the text is firmly founded on the latest research, while the case studies, topical and international examples, and experiential exercises that form a fundamental part of the book ensure that theory is always clearly applied to real-world practice. This text is an essential companion for MBA and postgraduate students who are studying modules on Human Resource Management or Managing People but who are non-HRM specialists and do not require the exhaustive detail found in other HRM texts. It is also suited for use alongside upper-level undergraduate modules on these topics on mainstream business degrees.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350304999

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Hegel’s Moral Corporation

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Hegel’s Moral Corporation

By: Thomas Klikauer

Hegel's Moral Corporation is about two versions of a corporation, one business oriented and dedicated to shareholder-value and profit-maximisation and one dedicated to moral life, Sittlichkeit, in Hegelian terms.

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1137547405

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Management Education

Fragments of an Emancipatory Theory

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Management Education

Fragments of an Emancipatory Theory

By: Thomas Klikauer

Written in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, this book develops a practical theory designed to humanise management education. Inevitably encountering deeply authoritarian business schools, the author sets the rigidity of curriculum against a student-centred approach found in Honneth’s concept of recognition and the Habermasian concept of communicative action. Management Education outlines measures for preventing Managerialism from colonising learning spaces that would prevent the practice of emancipatory learning from flourishing. The aim of the book is to allow students and teachers of business schools to create learning inside an education system based on humanity.

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3319407783

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Managerialism

A Critique of an Ideology

By: T. Klikauer

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Managerialism

A Critique of an Ideology

By: T. Klikauer

Most people know what management is but often people have vague ideas about Manageralism. This book introduces Manageralism and its ideology as a colonising project that has infiltrated nearly every eventuality of human society.

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1137334274

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Understanding and Improving Public Management Reforms

By: Thomas Elston

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Understanding and Improving Public Management Reforms

By: Thomas Elston

• Uses powerful concepts to show decision-makers how to understand and improve public management reforms; • Draws on economics, psychology and organizational sociology to provide a rounded framework for analysis and policy design; • A concise and accessible book practitioners with examples, cases and “myth buster” sections.

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Policy Press

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1447360893

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Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations

By: Thomas Calvard

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Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations

By: Thomas Calvard

Decades of investigations into diversity in the workplace have created mixed answers about what kinds of effects it has on employees and teams, and whether or not it can be managed effectively to generate positive outcomes for organizations. In contrast to mainstream work from management and psychology, critical views on workplace diversity have emerged that seek to grasp more fully the messy social and political realities of workplace diversity as they operate in context. Critical Perspectives on Diversity in Organizations therefore seeks to review, integrate and build upon emerging critical perspectives on workplace diversity to help give a fuller understanding of how employee differences affect workplace interactions, relationships, employment, inequality, culture, and society. Critical perspectives help to fill in and openly recognize many of the more far-reaching issues that pure management and psychology approaches can leave out – issues of power, inequality, politics, history, culture, and lived experiences. If organizations do not try to take these issues into account and critically reflect on them, then diversity management is likely to remain a relatively blunt instrument or worse, a hollow piece of rhetoric. This book will be of interest to international graduate students and researchers working on topics associated with equality, diversity and inclusion in organizations, as well as various organizational practitioners and activists engaged with these issues.

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Routledge

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1351799185

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Hegel’s Moral Corporation

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Hegel’s Moral Corporation

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The Language of Managerialism

Organizational Communication or an Ideological Tool?

By: Thomas Klikauer

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The Language of Managerialism

Organizational Communication or an Ideological Tool?

By: Thomas Klikauer

This book explains how management became Managerialism and how the language of managerialism was developed.Providing a comprehensive discussion of the managerialism-language interface, the book argues that firstly, managerialism itself has developed its distinctive language; and secondly, the two concepts of managerialism and language mutually depend upon each other. Written from the critical media studies perspective of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, the book reaches beyond simple business communication, illustrating how the language of managerialism is colonising the non-corporate lifeworld. The book concludes by offering fresh ideas on how to move beyond the language of managerialism.

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3031163796

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Management Education

Fragments of an Emancipatory Theory

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Management Education

Fragments of an Emancipatory Theory

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Seven Management Moralities

By: T. Klikauer

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Seven Management Moralities

By: T. Klikauer

For the first time, Seven Management Moralities delivers a comprehensive overview of all forms of moral and immoral behaviour displayed by management. Utilising Kohlberg's ascending scale of seven moralities, the book includes the ethics of Aristotle, Kant, Utilitarianism, Bauman, Habermas, and Singer.

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1137032219

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Paradoxes of internationalization

British and German trade unions at Ford and General Motors 1967–2000

By: Thomas Fetzer

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Paradoxes of internationalization

British and German trade unions at Ford and General Motors 1967–2000

By: Thomas Fetzer

Paradoxes of internationalization deals with British and German trade union responses to the internationalization of corporate structures and strategies at Ford and General Motors between the late 1960s and the early twenty-first century. The book is based on research in numerous archives in Britain, Germany and the United States. The book points to the paradoxical effects of internationalization processes. First, it demonstrates how internationalization reinforced trade unions’ national identities and allegiances. Second, the book highlights that internationalization made domestic trade union practices more similar in some respects, while it simultaneously contributed to the re-creation of diversity between and within the two countries. Third, the book shows that investment competition was paradoxically the most important precondition for the emergence of cross-border cooperation initiatives. The book will be of interest to academics and students in a range of disciplines from comparative industrial relations, to international political economy, business studies and transnational history.

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Manchester University Press

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1526129973

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Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management

By: T. Klikauer

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Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management

By: T. Klikauer

Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management analyses morality of HRM from the perspective of American psychologist Laurence Kohlberg. This book examines and makes value judgements on whether or not HRM is moral from the viewpoint of Kohlberg's seven stages of morality as a follow-up study of the author's 2012 book, Seven Management Moralities.

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1137455780

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Managing People in Organizations

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Managing People in Organizations

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Communication and Management at Work

A Critical Guide

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Communication and Management at Work

A Critical Guide

By: Thomas Klikauer

As work regimes are continuously moving towards post industialism, forms of communication change with them. Avoiding yet another handy recipe book for effective managerial communication, this book positions communication inside this historic development of work and management and shows how this development has led to the instrumental use of communication, informed by the distinction between those who manage and those who are managed and and directed towards the control and system integration of the workers.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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0230515436

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Management Communication

Communicative Ethics and Action

By: Thomas Klikauer

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Management Communication

Communicative Ethics and Action

By: Thomas Klikauer

As managerial work regimes move continuously towards post-industrialism, forms of communication change with it and work relationships are increasingly becoming communicative relationships. This book seeks to end communicative distortions by establishing a new model of communication that will set up practical and workable communication forums.

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0230583237

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A Global Guide to Human Resource Management

Managing Across Stakeholders

By: Thomas Klikauer

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A Global Guide to Human Resource Management

Managing Across Stakeholders

By: Thomas Klikauer

A Global Guide to Human Resource Management is a concise HRM introductory text offering a uniquely non-region-specific approach to people management in international business organisations. The book presents an alternative to standard managerial approaches, reflecting the perspectives of multiple stakeholders (workers, trade unions, states and governments, NGOs) to critically evaluate HRM in practice and, in so doing, enables students to make effective decisions in their own practice, wherever their careers take them. Its accessibility and concision make it well suited to short courses for non-HRM and non-business specialists. This text covers all major introductory topics for non-specialists, introducing the concept and purpose of HRM, through recruitment, people, skills, designing work, promoting health, rewarding success, and successful and ethical people management. This edition includes a new chapter on green HRM. Rich with pedagogical features, the book includes five case studies per chapter to connect theory with practice. It is also supported with a range of instructor materials including online guest lectures, general discussion questions, a glossary, an index, and online documentaries that explain how to manage people. It is essential reading for students interested in Human Resources and Personnel Management, Organisational Behaviour and Development and Workplace Culture"--

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