
The Work of Managers
Towards a Practice Theory of Management
Stefan Tengblad(Editor)
Oxford University Press
1st Edition
Published on 16. February 2012
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-19-963972-4 (ISBN)
Description
Managers are significant actors in contemporary organizations and yet there is very little deep-level analysis of what managers do, and how they understand their managerial selves and social situations. Instead of evaluating management techniques according to their internal logic and systematic qualities, this book advances the 'practice perspective', using behaviour and activities of successful, experienced, and skilled managers as the primary data for theorizing good management.
In this book, academics review classic literature on managerial work, discuss methodological and theoretical approaches, and present empirical studies on various kinds of managers at different levels of organizations, in different roles, and different sectors, from construction site managers and CEOs of large companies to university vice chancellors and front-line health care managers. It makes the case for studies of managerial work that look beyond the rational and ordered world to the challenges presented by, inter alia, work and information overload, complexity, performance pressures, unintended consequences, and irreconcilable expectations.
In this book, academics review classic literature on managerial work, discuss methodological and theoretical approaches, and present empirical studies on various kinds of managers at different levels of organizations, in different roles, and different sectors, from construction site managers and CEOs of large companies to university vice chancellors and front-line health care managers. It makes the case for studies of managerial work that look beyond the rational and ordered world to the challenges presented by, inter alia, work and information overload, complexity, performance pressures, unintended consequences, and irreconcilable expectations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Management and Organization Studies
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
740 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-963972-4 (9780199639724)
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Work of Managers Towards a Practice Theory of Management
Towards a Practice Theory of Management
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Person
Stefan Tengblad is Professor in Business Administration at University of Skoevde, Sweden. He has written several articles on leadership and managerial work, which have been published in the Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Scandinavian Journal of Management and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management.
Editor
, Professor in Business Administration, School of Technology and Science, University of Skoevde, Sweden
Content
PART ONE: FRAMEWORK; PART TWO: A PRACTICE PERSPECTIVE ON LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL WORK; PART THREE: OPERATIONAL MANAGERIAL WORK; PART FOUR: ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGERIAL WORK; PART FIVE: MANAGERIAL WORK IN SMALL BUSINESSES; PART SIX: THE WAY FORWARD