Thomas Klikauer

Thomas Klikauer is a Senior lecturer teaching Human resource management and Industrial Relations at the Sydney [Graduate School of Management] at the Western Sydney University, Australia.
He holds MAs from the United States and Germany and a PhD from Warwick University, UK.
His research into the motor vehicle and shipping industry led to several books focusing on Communication, and Management at Work, Management Communication, Communicative Ethics and Action. His current interest is in ethics at work and management. Thomas Klikauer is a leading authority on Managerialism.

Education

Finishing elementary school, he entered into an apprenticeship to graduate with an engineering degree as toolmaker. Upon re-entering school, he graduated from The University of Applied Science in Darmstadt to move on to Technical University of Darmstadt and to Bremen University holding a master's degree in Political Science. He also holds a Master of Political Science from Boston University. He was awarded a PhD at the University of Warwick in Industrial and Business Studies.

2023. German Conspiracy Fantasies in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic, KDP
2023. The Language of Managerialism, Palgrave/Springer
2022. A Global Guide to HRM, London: Routledge
2021. Media Capitalism – Hegemony in the Age of Mass Deception, Palgrave
2020. Alternative für Deutschland – The AfD, Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press
2018. Managing People in Organizations, Red Globe Press
2017. Management Education - Fragments of an Emancipatory Theory, Palgrave
2015. Hegel’s Moral Corporation, Basingstoke: Palgrave
2014. Seven HRM Moralities, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
2013. Managerialism – A Critique of an Ideology, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
2012. Seven Management Moralities, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
2010. Critical Management Ethics, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
2008. Management Communication, Basingstoke: Palgrave.
2007. Communication and Management at Work, Basingstoke: Palgrave.