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The Threat to Entrepreneurial Freedom and Initiative Posed by “New Age” Management Training Programs

Herbert L. Rosedale

Abstract

“New age” though as often applied to business management presents a clear and present danger to individual freedom and free discussion and debate. Programs based on new age tenets can erode a respect for critical thought, substitute striving for approbation for objective evaluation, intrude into familial and personal relationships or offend religious sensibilities of program participants, create a yes-man mentality in the name of “consensus management,” and subordinate organizational goals to those of the training program. Examples of such harms are described. Recommendations on how business enterprises can avoid these dangers are also offered.
 

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