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Organising and managing work : organisational, managerial, and strategic behaviour in theory and practice / Tony Watson.

By: Watson, Tony J.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Prentice Hall, 2006Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xxvii, 497 p. ; 25 cm. + pbk.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 027370480X; 9780273704805.Subject(s): Organization | Management | Organizational effectiveness | Business and Management | Econometrics & economic statistics | Business & ManagementDDC classification: 658 | 658.4 WAT
Contents:
Organising and managing work: study, critique and practice -- Organisations and organising: bureaucracy, control, processes and negotiated orders -- People and organisations: identity, culture and narrative -- Organisations and people: orientations, emotions and mischief -- Managing the organisation: managerial functions, tasks, processes and competences -- Managing to manage: power, decision making, ethics and the struggle to cope -- Organisational structure, culture and change -- Managing, motivating, leading and tasking -- Organisations, environments and strategic managing -- Organising and managing human resources.
Summary: The author of 'Management, Organisation and Employment Strategy' presents a textbook focusing on the experiences and activities of those invovled in work organisations, contributing/using latest academic thinking on work and management behaviour.
Holdings
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General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 658.4 WAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 38888000493381
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Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The book takes as its starting point the everyday practices of people at all levels in organisations as they manage their work. It encourages the reader to use and judge organisation and management theories by their relevance to 'real life' practices and dilemmas, ranging the day-to-day to major strategic change.

The book also offers insights into aspects of organisational life that are often marginalised, such as the politics and ethics of managerial action; the ambiguous, uncertain and contested nature of organisational processes; and the significance of angst, emotion, humour and mischief in the everyday life of organisations

Previous ed.: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-491) and index.

Organising and managing work: study, critique and practice -- Organisations and organising: bureaucracy, control, processes and negotiated orders -- People and organisations: identity, culture and narrative -- Organisations and people: orientations, emotions and mischief -- Managing the organisation: managerial functions, tasks, processes and competences -- Managing to manage: power, decision making, ethics and the struggle to cope -- Organisational structure, culture and change -- Managing, motivating, leading and tasking -- Organisations, environments and strategic managing -- Organising and managing human resources.

The author of 'Management, Organisation and Employment Strategy' presents a textbook focusing on the experiences and activities of those invovled in work organisations, contributing/using latest academic thinking on work and management behaviour.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Organising and Managing Work: Study and Practice
  • 2 Organisations and Management: The Systems-Control Orthodoxy
  • 3 Organising and Managing: A Process-Relational Perspective
  • 4 People, Identity and Culture
  • 5 Experience and Work: Orientation, Emotion and Managing to Manage
  • 6 Organising and Strategy-Making
  • 7 Structure, Culture and The Struggle for Management Control
  • 8 Choice and Constraint in the Shaping Of Structure and Culture
  • 9 Shaping Tasks and Winning Co-operation
  • 10 Power, Decision-Making and Organisational Mischief
  • 11 Organising, Managing and Human Resourcing
  • 12 Managing in a Changing World: Capability, Learning, Trust and Morality
  • Concept Guide