AoM CMS Solidarity Statement
[See statement attached]
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Leicester has proposed targeted redundancies of academics
working in Critical Management Studies and Political Economy. Amid the
COVID-19 pandemic which has led to millions of deaths and untold economic
and social damage and at a time when university staff are supporting their
students and communities in extraordinary ways, these proposed cuts
demonstrate in the most serious terms the precarity that university staff
find themselves in. And sadly, this is happening at a time when the two
areas targeted: critical management thinking and political-economic
education; are more central than ever to addressing the great challenges of
our time. The Academy of Management CMS Executive stand in solidarity with
colleagues affected. Gibson Burrell and Simon Lilley ex-heads of department
write about the proposal as attached.
Regards,
The Academy of Management
CMS Division
Executive Team