| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 403 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge revivals |
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History of management thought |
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Routledge revivals.
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History of management thought (Aldershot, England)
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| Contents |
Part 1. Field study reports -- The direction of activity and communication in a departmental executive group / T. Burns -- Differential decisions in the management of an industrial plant / N.H. Martin -- Management in action / T. Burns -- The work activities of "middle" managers : an exploratory study / J.L. Horne and T. Lupton -- Roles in a manufacturing organization / R.L. Marples -- Managerial work : analysis from observation / H. Mintzberg -- Predictors of variation in managerial roles / J. Child and T. Ellis -- What effective general managers really do / J.P. Kotter -- Managerial behavior, uncertainty and hierarchy : a prelude to a synthesis / J. Hannaway -- What do Russian managers really do? : an observational study with comparison to US managers / F. Luthans [and others] -- Part 2. Methodological -- The use of diaries to study managers' jobs / R. Stewart -- Structured observation as a method of studying managerial work / H. Mintzberg -- How managers plan : the analysis of managers' activities / N. Snyder and W.F. Glueck -- Beyond structured observation : methodological issues and new directions / M.J. Martinko and W.L. Gardner -- Are the classical management functions useful in describing managerial work? / S. Carroll and D.J. Gillen -- Part 3. Theoretical -- A model for understanding managerial jobs and behaviour / R. Stewart -- On the nature of managerial tasks and skills : their distinguishing characteristics and organization / R. Whitley -- Enactment in managerial jobs / N. Fondas and R. Stewart -- Part 4. Critical research overviews -- Studies of managers : a fresh start? / D.L. Marples -- What do managers do? : a critical review of the evidence / C.P. Hales -- Studying managerial work : a critique and a proposal / H. Willmott -- Studies of managerial jobs and behaviour : the ways forward / R. Stewart -- Managerial work : forty years later / H. Mintzberg |
| Summary |
First published in 1998, readers of this volume will get a good overview of research into managerial work. They will learn about: what the researchers have studied; what methods have been used and the criticisms of the limitations of individual methods; the different concepts that have been developed; what has been learnt about managerial work and behaviour from these studies over the years; how this field of study has developed; the main criticisms made of the research; suggestions for future research and future developments. Studies of managerial work have a long history: the first major work was by Sune Carlson in Sweden in 1951 and studies have continued to the present day, mainly in the USA and the UK. The early studies sought to find out what managers actually did, as distinct from the generalized theories of the nature of managerial work. They were part of the new interest of social scientists in finding out what actually happened in organizations in opposition to the general theories that prevailed then. Articles cannot give a complete picture of the field studies that have been such a notable feature of this branch of research, because Carlson's study, like many of the later ones, was published only as a book. However, they provide all the information that students and researchers need to understand the aim, methods and approaches used by researchers so far and a good guide to the varied possibilities for developing this area of study |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Rosemary Stewart |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019) |
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Management.
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Industrial management.
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Organizational behavior.
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management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Management
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Industrial management
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Organizational behavior
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stewart, Rosemary, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429398599 |
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042939859X |
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9780429676574 |
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0429676573 |
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9780429676567 |
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0429676565 |
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9780429676581 |
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0429676581 |
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