Controversies in management: issues, debates, answers
Modern managers cope not only with a complex and ever changing world, but also with diverse ways of understanding and managing it. This second edition sets out to explore some of these puzzles and provides a guide to the different key theories and approaches to management that have developed over th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Modern managers cope not only with a complex and ever changing world, but also with diverse ways of understanding and managing it. This second edition sets out to explore some of these puzzles and provides a guide to the different key theories and approaches to management that have developed over the years. |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 260 S. |
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| adam_text | List of illustrations x
Preface xi
List of abbreviations xii
1 Controversies in management 1
The messy world of management 2
Critical thinking in management 5
What are controversies ? 8
Why bother with controversies? 10
Why controversies in management? 12
Can controversies be resolved? 16
Selection, structure and approach 18
Where do you stand? Orientation questionnaire 21
Questions for discussion 22
Further reading 22
2 What is management? A term in search of a meaning 23
The controversy in brief 24
A framework for analysis 25
Four approaches to management 29
Management: the rational profession 33
The practice of management 37
Back to the classics 41
Commentary 44
Questions for discussion 45
Further reading 46
3 What is management? Exploitation, politics and magic 47
Management: the exploitation of labour 48
Management: the politics of organization 55
Management, magic and religion 63
viii Contents
Commentary 69
Questions for discussion 72
Further reading 73
4 The social sciences: Can they help managers? 74
The controversy in brief 75
The idea of management science 77
The case for social science 84
The case against social science 86
Action research: a middle way? 89
The manager as a practical theorist 91
Commentary 94
Questions for discussion 95
Further reading 96
5 Principles of management: Valid or vacuous? 97
The controversy in brief 98
The idea of principles 99
The classical principles 100
The challenge of social science 107
In defence of principles 110
The continuing controversy 112
In search of suckers? 116
Commentary 117
Questions for discussion 121
Further reading 122
6 Getting ahead in management: Meritocracy or myth? 123
The controversy in brief 123
The normative approach: promotion as rational selection 125
The promotion process in practice 127
The achievement principle 132
Informal factors in promotion 133
Who gets ahead? 135
Managerial effectiveness and managerial success 137
The politics of promotion 138
Commentary 141
Questions for discussion 142
Further reading 142
7 Gender in management: Must men manage? 143
The controversy in brief 144
Men and women in management 145
Contents ix
Why men manage: the evolutionary perspective 148
Why men manage: from biological determinism to
social construction 152
Commentary 158
Questions for discussion 161
Further reading 161
8 Organizational leadership: Does it make a difference? 162
The controversy in brief 163
What is leadership? 164
Historical views of leadership 166
Leadership and internal control 168
External constraints on leaders 174
The impact of leaders 176
Commentary 181
Questions for discussion 183
Further reading 183
9 Managing all over the world: One way or many? 184
The controversy in brief 184
National cultures and management systems 186
Learning from Japan 189
What is the Japanese management system? 191
Making sense of Japanese management 194
Japanese management in practice 199
Japanese management: converging or still exceptional? 205
Commentary 206
Questions for discussion 208
Further reading 208
10 The future of management: Business as unusual? 209
The controversy in brief 210
What condition are we in? 211
The new organizers 218
Business as unusual? 222
Commentary 228
Questions for discussion 230
Further reading 231
Bibliography 232
Author index 251
Subject index 257
Illustrations
Figures
1.1 Choices and stakeholders in management theory 15
2.1 An analytical framework for management 27
4.1 Practical theory and action 93
6.1 The essence of personnel selection 126
6.2 The normative approach to selection 127
Tables
6.1 The activities of successful and effective managers
(% of time devoted to four clusters of activity) 138
7.1 Men and women in the labour force and in management,
selected countries, 1999 (%) 147
10.1 The attributes of transnationally competent managers 222
Boxes
1.1 Critical thinking in management 7
2.1 Henri Fayol s concept of management 34
2.2 The characteristics and content of managerial work 39
4.1 Four paradigms of organizational analysis 81
5.1 P.T. Barnum s rules for success in business, 1853 101
5.2 Fayol s general principles of management, 1916 103
5.3 Organization principles, 1954 106
5.4 Peters and Waterman s basic practices of excellently
managed companies 114
9.1 Cultural variables 188
10.1 Some features of post modernity 214
10.2 Possible attributes of the post modern manager 230
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