Laissez faire approaches

Order Description Using a case study of your own choosing, critically reflect on how laissez faire approaches have driven organisational practices. Arguably laissez-faire approaches to organisations have been evident at least since the theorising of Adam Smith. Neo-liberalism has reinforced and extended laissez-faire into the public and not- for-profit sectors. Using a case study of your own choosing, critically reflect on how laissez faire approaches have driven organisational practices. In answering this question you may wish to draw on the following approach? 1.What impacts has neo-liberalism had on organisations in the public and/or Not-For-Profit sectors? How can concepts of power help us critically understand power relations within your analysis? Introduction: Review how neoliberalism has adopted laissez-faire and incorporated public and not-for-profits into private sector ethos. Show how new public management has overtaken the public sector. Review where and how neoliberalism came into existence, who had the power to change such fundamental shifts in the economy and why was it done? Case study: Introduce a case study of your own from either the public sector or a social enterprise operating in partnership with a local authority. Illustrate the effects NPM has had on the organisation concerned. Discuss from a structuralist perspective (e.g. Stephen Lukes) how NPM has drawn on understandings of power to incorporate the new ways of working i.e. target setting. Then, discuss how resistant power from those subjected to targets has emerged. For example, how Machiavelli can help us analyse resistance to power through game theory. So, what can you draw from your case study? Does neoliberalism introduce a paradox? Has a system intended to remove bureaucracy ended up in a system in even tighter hierarchical control over the individual employees it intended to free and liberate from the iron cage of bureaucracy?