authoritative management as a protection against authoritarian practices. Authority, properly conceived, redirects power to … together, represent a theory of the foundation of management in which authority, power and rhetoric are central concepts. This … knowledge and expertise in management. Arguing to their exclusive education, managers deprive employers and employees of …

Managers’ power within organisations has been analysed by several approaches: Orthodox management and organisation … studies (‘functional approach’), Critical Management Studies (‘socio-political approaches’), interpretive, discourse … such as managers’ power in multi-dimensional ways. …