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It remains an unavoidable structural characteristic of Managerialism to colonise the non-managerial sphere of human life. From colonialism via imperialism to today's corporate globalisation, Managerialism, and even to mundane management training regimes, every single act of colonisation and conquest—quite necessarily—implies two elements: a conqueror and someone who is conquered. Just as the Italian theoretician Niccolo Machiavelli noted so brilliantly a long time ago, the conqueror imposes his objectives on the vanquished, making them his possession.¹ In managerial regimes these vanquished are labelled human resources while in management training they are framed as educational customers. Management training programmes impose a Nietzsche-like will on those who are overpowered and enticed to internalise the rules and ideologies of management and Managerialism.² The inevitable structure of domination assures that the victims of this process become alienated through being "other directed" and shaped by management training regimes. From the first act of this managerial tainting conquest, human beings are reduced to the inhuman status of being "things' played with on the chessboard of Managerialism and managerial training regimes. But just as domination remains associated with managerial regimes and management training, domination-free situations remain an obligatory element of emancipatory education.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40778-4_8

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