Thinking about Management : Implications of Organizational Debates for Practice

by Ian Palmer

• ISBN13: 9780761955351
• ISBN10: 0761955356
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-21
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

This radical text presents central management questions that managers and students need to work with and understand. Key debates in management theory are taken out of their academic setting and discussed in relation to management experience. Exercises, examples, illustrations and summaries bring the problems and dilemmas alive for the student. From people management to organizational culture; leadership to learning; institutional power to individual innovation; the multi-faceted territory of management is explored and opened up.

Table of Contents

Management and Organizational Debates	1	(11)
Managing Structure	11	(25)
Managing People	36	(37)
Managing Power	73	(42)
Managing Culture	115	(24)
Managing Strategy	139	(30)
Managing Change	169	(28)
Managing Organizational Learning	197	(31)
Management and Leadership in Context	228	(31)
Management and Postmodernism	259	(33)
Appendix: A Word to Management Educators on How to Use this Book	292	(2)
Bibliographies	294	(45)
Index	339