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This article is an electronic version of an article originally
published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1996, Volume 13, Number 2, pages 194-207.
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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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