The fallible manager: The critique of management within pluralist industrial relations

Heery, Edmund ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3914-7635 2024. The fallible manager: The critique of management within pluralist industrial relations. Industrial Relations Journal 55 (5) , pp. 329-349. 10.1111/irj.12438

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Abstract

This article uses the work of Willy Brown, John Purcell, Linda Dickens, and Keith Sisson to identify the critique of management within pluralist industrial relations. The notion of the ‘fallible manager’ captures the essence of this critique. Within the pluralist tradition, fallible managers are identified as the source of industrial relations problems and are also deemed incapable of reversing the harms they cause in the absence of supportive state intervention. While managers are deemed fallible in the pluralist tradition, however, management typically is not regarded as illegitimate and in a reformed institutional context is capable of managing for the common good, to generate ‘shared value.’

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0019-8692
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	10 June 2024
Date of Acceptance:	28 May 2024
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2024 14:16
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/169633

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