Tentacles of Corporatization
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I am a university researcher, but I have been a lifelong employee in nonprofit organizations. I am joining UP because I have seen the tentacles of corporatization and managerial dominance creep into organizations that should be free of those things. There is no reason for universities and nonprofits to constantly restructure, give their workers nonsense psychological “tests,” hire layers of bureaucracy, and drive down wages while promoting a select few. If nonprofits and education can’t stem the tide, we are done for.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I too have had a similar experience, as a university researcher and witnessed the imposition of testing, fitness and assessment regimes invade academia, turning them into businesses! It is not necessary to have been schooled in John Henry Newman’s Idea of a Liberal University, and his tests of the ‘development of an Idea’ (and of its corruption) to recognise the
fatuous New Right mechanics of Proframmed Learning!
The ‘weadels inhabit the courts of the Sacred Places’, but weasels scream when cornered, as will these brain-dead managers when, and fairly
soon I think, their robotic institutions are short of students, staff and money, and they duly declare BANKRUPTCY! Their bankruptcy has been obvious in all areas of scholastic performance for some time, in spite of the linguistic drivel
with which they covered their bent anatomies! It’s fitting that financial liquidation should
be the ‘last throw of the dice’!