Is "new management" ambiguous ?

Question

To me it means "a new theory of management" or "a repacement of old management by new management".

So is there not risk that a boss who arranges workshops in a new theory of management will find himself ousted, because someone will see the "new" and assume that the old is being ousted, and put this into effect.

Answer 1

it usually means actual new/different people managing the place

Answer 2

Major changes in management style are risky because of resistance to change. They threaten the entrenched position of middle management, even upper management. They are a not very veiled criticism of existing management, and those who have prospered within it.

New management style can be introduced piece by piece, such that we only realize that the whole structure has been changed when one day we realize how different it has become, and by now we have a lot of buy in or we have expelled those parts that can not fit within the original structure.

There is a saying about a restaurant that puts up a sign "Under New Management".

This says our old management was so bad we do not want to be tarred with the same brush, we do not want to borrow its goodwill because it stinks.

But it also says, we may be a bunch of  rank amateurs. Newness of management or management theory is not a guarantee of goodness the way "In business for 3 generations" is.