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  • Letter from Gibson Burrell and Simon Lilley about the plans for compulsory redundancies

    By: Marie Hasbi Marie Hasbi , 5 years ago
    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 stands in solidarity with colleagues affected. Gibson Burrell and Simon Lilley ex-heads of the School of Management at Leicester, write about the proposal here.