Understanding management

Contributor(s): Linstead, Stephen | Grafton Small, Robert | Jeffcutt, PaulMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1996Description: viii, 218 pISBN: 9780803989122; 0803989121; 9780803989139; 080398913X (pbk.)Subject(s): ManagementDDC classification: 658 Online resources: Click here to access online | Click here to access online
Contents:
PART ONE. MAKING THE MEANING OF MANAGEMENT -- Understanding Management / Stephen Linstead -- Culture, Critique and Change The Meaning of Management and the Management of Meaning / Dan Gowler and Karen Legge -- Producing Clarity -- Depoliticizing Control / David Golding -- PART TWO. DEFAMILIARIZING MANAGEMENT PRACTICE -- Competence, Symbolic Activity and Promotability / Omar Aktouf -- Management Rituals / David Golding -- Maintaining Simplicity in the Chain of Command There to Here and No Way Back / Michael L Rosen and Thomas P Mullen -- The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer -- PART THREE. RETHINKING SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT -- Management in Context / Steven P Feldman -- Culture and Organizational Change `We Are Our Own Policemen!' / Stephen Lloyd Smith and Barry Wilkinson -- Organizing without Conflict -- PART FOUR: CONSUMING AND CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY -- Marketing, or the Anthropology of Consumption / Robert Grafton Small -- Autobiographical Acts and Organizational Identities / Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges -- PART FIVE: CHANGING IDENTITIES -- Between Managers and the Managed / Paul Jeffcutt -- The Processes of Organizational Transition Postmodernism Goes Practical / Hugo Letiche
Summary: "This unique volume focuses on management as it is--a complex set of social and symbolic processes--often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox. In particular, Understanding Management contains a body of work concerned with building an experience-based grounded description and understanding of the processes of management and managing. The contributors to this volume explore and illuminate various themes including, 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. Concentrating on the meanings and relationship between managerial talk, thought, and action, the contributors examine issues like culture, myth, ritual, totem, and taboo. Drawing from both new and established anthropological concepts, this volume provides an in-depth analysis that enables the reader to understand the nature of managing. Understanding Management represents a fascinating and invaluable resource for all those studying, teaching, and researching management, and for those in organization theory, organization behavior, the sociology and psychology of organizations, and general management studies" -- Publisher's information.
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Includes Index.

PART ONE. MAKING THE MEANING OF MANAGEMENT --
Understanding Management / Stephen Linstead --
Culture, Critique and Change The Meaning of Management and the Management of Meaning / Dan Gowler and Karen Legge --
Producing Clarity --
Depoliticizing Control / David Golding --
PART TWO. DEFAMILIARIZING MANAGEMENT PRACTICE --
Competence, Symbolic Activity and Promotability / Omar Aktouf --
Management Rituals / David Golding --
Maintaining Simplicity in the Chain of Command There to Here and No Way Back / Michael L Rosen and Thomas P Mullen --
The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer --
PART THREE. RETHINKING SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT --
Management in Context / Steven P Feldman --
Culture and Organizational Change `We Are Our Own Policemen!' / Stephen Lloyd Smith and Barry Wilkinson --
Organizing without Conflict --
PART FOUR: CONSUMING AND CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY --
Marketing, or the Anthropology of Consumption / Robert Grafton Small --
Autobiographical Acts and Organizational Identities / Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges --
PART FIVE: CHANGING IDENTITIES --
Between Managers and the Managed / Paul Jeffcutt --
The Processes of Organizational Transition Postmodernism Goes Practical / Hugo Letiche

"This unique volume focuses on management as it is--a complex set of social and symbolic processes--often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox. In particular, Understanding Management contains a body of work concerned with building an experience-based grounded description and understanding of the processes of management and managing. The contributors to this volume explore and illuminate various themes including, 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. Concentrating on the meanings and relationship between managerial talk, thought, and action, the contributors examine issues like culture, myth, ritual, totem, and taboo. Drawing from both new and established anthropological concepts, this volume provides an in-depth analysis that enables the reader to understand the nature of managing. Understanding Management represents a fascinating and invaluable resource for all those studying, teaching, and researching management, and for those in organization theory, organization behavior, the sociology and psychology of organizations, and general management studies" -- Publisher's information.

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