Philosophy of Management?

My friend and colleague, Nick Barrowman, recently shared an article with me. It is by Matthew Stewart, with the title of, "The Management Myth", published in The Atlantic Monthly. While there is little in the article that I found surprising or controversial, I really liked the following two quotes on page 86:

"...about 99 percent of all the management literature once you master this dialectic between rationalists and humanists. The Taylorite rationalist says: Be efficient! The Mayo-ist humanist replies: Hey, these are people we're talking about! And the debate goes on."

"...human beings have produced an astonishing wealth of creative expression on the topics of reason, passion, and living with other people. In books, poems, plays, music, works of art, and plain old graffiti, they have explored what it means to struggle against adversity, to apply their extraordinary faculty of reason to the world, and to confront the naked truth about what motivates their fellow human animals. These works are every bit as relevant to the dilemmas faced by managers in their quest to make the world a more productive place as any of the management literature."