Towards a Reframing for Imaginary Management: Challenges of Creation and Dialogicity

• Autor(a) principal: Paula, Ana Paula Paes de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: https://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/RAM/article/view/7876
• topic: Managerial Work. Managerial Imaginary. Management. Dialogicity. Administrator Education.; Trabajo Directivo. Imaginación Gerencial. Gestión. Dialogicidad. Formación de Administradores.; Trabalho Gerencial. Imaginário Gerencial. Gestão. Dialogicidade. Formação de Administradores.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to discuss the redefinition about the managerial imaginary, recovering other meaning to the management, which involves creating and dialogue, and represents a new dynamic for the activity, as well as challenges for administrator education.Originality/Gap/Relevance/Implications: In the first part, we make a constrat between the empirical and the abstract conception of management, to highlight the practical, social and political aspects of managerial activity and call into question the traditional view of management as planning and control. In the second part, we argue that the essence of management is the dialectic and their challenge is to resort to dialogicity to face the contradictions.Key considerations/conclusions: We maintain that the strength of managerial imaginary reinforces the myth of doing business and control is synonymous to manage, despite the empirical findings that contradict this view. Thus, rethinking the management activity means breaking with this imaginary, redefines it and transforming administrator education.