Understanding Management - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 080398913X ISBN 13: 9780803989139

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080398913X
• ISBN 13: 9780803989139
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 229
• Redattore: Linstead Stephen Andrew, Grafton-Small Robert, Jeffcutt Paul
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile