The Reality of Management
Published on 14. May 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-7506-4289-7 (ISBN)
Description
"The Reality of Management", now in its third edition, carves a clear course through the fads and fashions of management theory providing the manager with a practical and usable guide to managing effectively. First published in the 1960s, this thoroughly revised and updated edition finds the fundamentals of managing remain the same. It provides a unique long perspective on current managerial fashions, on the evidence of their utility and distinguishing what is new from what is reinvention. "The Reality of Management" is addressed to all managers who wish to learn more about their jobs for the practical reason of becoming better managers and to all students who seek to learn something of the realities of management. Offering practical, hands-on, readable approach to the realities of management, it includes descriptions of social research into management practice and problems. This title stands as a management classic alongside Peter Drucker, Mary Parker Follet, Charles Handy and Michael Porter's works.
Reviews / Votes
Reviews of previous editions: 'The real value of the book lies in the fact that it should bring to a wide audience...some idea of the contribution that systematic research can make to an understanding of the manager's task.' The Sunday Times 'This is a book to be welcomed by everyone concerned with the teaching of management. It should be required reading on every management course.' British Journal of Industrial Relations 'For those who want a short cut through the literature on management...Miss Stewart's book is an excellent choice.' Personnel Management 'A stimulating and thought-provoking book.' Office Management 'The most significant book seeking to round up the realities of management...since Peter Drucker's classic 'The Practice of Management'. Scientific Business 'Excellent...has not aged with time...still relevant...well laid out, good analysis and depth and extremely readable.' Senior Lecturer, Chichester Institute of Higher Education 'The most dilapidated volume on my management bookshelf is the first edition of this classic text first published in 1963. It is good to have a new edition...So is this the book on management to have? Certainly you could scarcely do better. Steering expertly between the the Scylla of the Drucker and Mintzberg tomes, and the Charybdis of the glib One-Minute manager and Excellence charlatans, Rosemary Stewart remains cool, rational, sensible and, what is best, helpful. Andrew Wall, Health Service JournalMore details
Edition
New ed of 3 Revised ed
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-4289-7 (9780750642897)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Rosemary Stewart
Reality of Management, The
E-Book
10/2012
3rd Edition
Routledge
€30.49
Available for download
Previous edition
Rosemary Stewart
The Reality of Management
Book
04/1986
2nd Edition
Pan Books
€27.42
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Person
Rosemary Stewart is well known for her readable and helpful books on management, and most of all for The Reality of Management. Her books come from her work with managers in widely different kinds of organizations, in different parts of the world, and from her many studies of what managers are actually doing: it was for this research that she received the honorary doctorate from Uppsala University on May 28th.
Content
Introduction; Introduction to the first edition; Introduction to the revised edition; Introduction to the second edition; Introduction to the third edition; The job; The organization; Contrasts in management; Managing now and in the future; References; Index.