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In Search of Management (Revised Edition): Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work, 1st Edition

Tony J. Watson

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In Search of Management (Revised Edition): Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work 1st Edition by Tony J. Watson

Overview

IN SEARCH OF MANAGEMENT E1 REV ISED

Introduction.
1. Managing and Making Sense: Culture, Control and Dialogue.
2. Management: An Activity in Search of Itself.
3. Managers in Search of Themselves.
4. The Organisation in Search of Itself.
5. Strategy and Culture in Practice: A Tale of Two Rhetorics.
6. Means, Ends and Going Around in Circles.
7. Managing Management: Theory, Practice and Emotion.
8. Managing to Manage: Language, Humour, Gender and Home.
9. Culture, Competence and Keeping Faith.
Appendix: A Scheme of Management Competences.
Bibliography.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

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  • ISBN-10: 1861525230
  • ISBN-13: 9781861525239
  • RETAIL $82.95