Understanding Management - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 080398913X ISBN 13 : 9780803989139

Editeur : 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,

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 080398913X
• ISBN 13: 9780803989139
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Linstead Stephen Andrew, Small Robert G. M.D., Jeffcutt Paul
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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