Understanding Management - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803989121 ISBN 13: 9780803989122

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This book views management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox. In particular, it develops the body of work concerned with building experienced-based, grounded description and understanding of the processes of management and managing.

The contributors explore: the dynamics, subtleties and complexities of managerial life; its informal as well as formalized features and practices; and the significance of the cultural and symbolic in organizations. There is a concern with meanings and the relationships between managerial talk, thought and action. The contributors also draw on both established social anthropological concepts - such as culture, myth, ritual, totem and taboo - for understanding the nature of managing, and concepts deriving from newer postmodernist themes and developments. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of critical reflection for learning and change in management and organization.

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My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and PhD from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803989121
• ISBN 13: 9780803989122
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Herausgeber: Linstead Stephen Andrew, Grafton-Small Robert, Jeffcutt Paul
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar