David Knights and I have run a final year undergraduate module on the BSc
Management course for many years that is organized around issues of
identity, insecurity, inequality and power at the workplace. We illustrate
and explore these themes using four contemporary novels:
Tom Wolfe Bonfire of the Vanities
Milan Kundera The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kazuo Ishiguru The Remains of the Day
David Lodge Nice Work
We are aware of other people who also use novels, plays and poetry in
teaching students of management. There is a small but growing literature on
this. We have just completed a book that is based upon the course that is to
be published by Sage later this year. As far as we know, it is the first
`textbook' to use novels in this way. If anyone is interested in receiving
the full details of this, please contact me.
Hugh
Hugh Willmott
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Web site for Association for Accountancy and Business Affairs:
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Hugh Willmott
Professor of Organizational Analysis
Manchester School of Management
UMIST
Manchester M60 1QD
United Kingdom
Tel : 0161 200 3412
Fax : 0161 200 3505
email :
Hugh.Willmott@umist.ac.uk