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9780199639724

The Work of Managers Towards a Practice Theory of Management

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    9780199639724

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    0199639728

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-07
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Managers are significant actors in contemporary organizations and yet there is very little deep-level analysis of what managers do, and how they understand their managerial selves and social situations. Instead of evaluating management techniques according to their internal logic and systematic qualities, this book advances the "practice perspective," using behavior and activities of successful, experienced, and skilled managers as the primary data for theorizing good management. In this book, academics review classic literature on managerial work, discuss methodological and theoretical approaches, and present empirical studies on various kinds of managers at different levels of organizations, in different roles, and different sectors, from construction site managers and CEOs of large companies to university vice chancellors and front-line health care managers. It makes the case for studies of managerial work that look beyond the rational and ordered world to the challenges presented by, inter alia, work and information overload, complexity, performance pressures, unintended consequences, and irreconcilable expectations.

Author Biography


Stefan Tengblad is Professor in Business Administration at University of Skovde, Sweden. He has written several articles on leadership and managerial work, which have been published in the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Scandinavian Journal of Management and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. xi
List of Tablesp. xii
Notes on the Contributorsp. xiv
Framework
Overcoming the rationalistic fallacy in management researchp. 3
Management in practice: Overview of classic studies on managerial workp. 18
A practice perspective on leadership and managerial work
Managerial leadership as event-driven improvisationp. 47
Managerial leadership: Identities, processes, and interactionsp. 69
Multi-framing as a tool in top management teamsp. 87
Operational managerial work
Work activities and stress among managers in health carep. 105
Leadership as muddling through: Site managers in the construction industryp. 131
R&D managers leading knowledge workers with carep. 146
Administrative managerial work
Managers at the municipal topp. 167
The Swedish Municipality Director: A managerial function between politics and administrationp. 190
Leaders of modern universities: Primi inter pares or chief executive officers?p. 206
Managerial work at the top: Tracing changes in work practices and efforts towards theory developmentp. 226
Managerial work in small businesses
Managerial behaviour in small firms: Does it matter what managers do?p. 245
The duality of strategic managerial work in SMEs: A structuration perspectivep. 264
Managerial practices in family-owned firms: Strategizing actors, their arenas, and their emotionsp. 281
The way forward
Refining shadowing methods for studying managerial workp. 301
Bridging the management theory and practice gapp. 318
Conclusions and the way forward: Towards a practice theory of managementp. 337
Indexp. 357
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