Brave New Reductionism: TQM as Ethnocentrism

Creator

Dionysios Dennis

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Publisher

Arizona State University, University of South Florida

Publication Date

May 1995

Abstract

At century's end, practices at institutions of higher education are regularly subjected to a numbing array of stresses. Under the umbrella of fiscal austerity, intensified regimes of surveillance, in the form of corporatist management philosophies such as Total Quality Management (TQM), have been widely imposed. TQM proponents now advocate the total managementof human thought and identity. In a blatantly econometric and ethnocentric discourse where human variability is a "virus" to be "eliminated" under a war metaphor, nothing less than the future of independent intellectual work is at stake. This essay primarily explores how the theoretical roots and contemporary tropes of TQM shape a range of TQM-effects.

Extent

19

Volume

3

Issue

9

Language

English

Media Type

Journals (Periodicals)

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

E11-00038

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Recommended Citation

Dennis, Dionysios, "Brave New Reductionism: TQM as Ethnocentrism" (1995). Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA). 287.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_EPAA/287