Understanding Management - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080398913X ISBN 13: 9780803989139

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

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,

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About the Author

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.

Review

`A most interesting collection of critical current thinking′ - Journal of Managerial Psychology

′12 articles that review management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes "often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox" is Understanding Management′ - Long Range Planning

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080398913X
• ISBN 13: 9780803989139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Linstead Stephen Andrew, Grafton-Small Robert, Jeffcutt Paul