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Organising and Managing Work Tony Watson

Organising and Managing Work By Tony Watson

Organising and Managing Work by Tony Watson

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Summary

This text covers issues within and across traditionally separate areas of organisational behaviour, management, strategy and human resource management. It focuses on the experiences and activities of people practically involved in work organisations, adopting a stance of critical reflection and ethical awareness.

Organising and Managing Work Summary

Organising and Managing Work: Organisational, managerial and strategic behaviour in theory and practice by Tony Watson

Organising and Managing Work is relevant to both undergraduates and MBA students on business and management studies programmes. It can be used equally effectively as a core textbook or as a secondary reading resource within modules in organisational behaviour, management, strategic analysis or human resource management. In addition, the book is ideal for the independent learner or reflective practitioner wishing to get an overview of the latest thinking in this field. This text focuses on the experiences and activities of people practically involved in work organisations, whilst using and contributing to the latest academic thinking on work and management behaviour and adopting a stance of critical reflection and ethical awareness. It is written to relate to the experiences and interests of its readers, providing fascinating and stimulating stories and conversations taken from the author's research and work organisation experience. Together, these elements bring alive for the reader issues that are central both to academic debate and organisational and managerial practice.

Organising and Managing Work Reviews

"Tony Watson's thinking is state-of-the-art. He is at the forefront, both as a scholar and as a researcher. But he is also a brilliant teacher, and this book will entice its readers into learning. The book is clear, interesting, highly original, brilliantly structured, totally sound theoretically, well grounded in organisational life, and full of good stories. No one gives you more new thoughts per page." "David Sims, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and head, School of Business and Management, Brunel University "Yet again Tony Watson has written a 'must buy' book. His new text, Organising and Managing Work, provides an insightful, sophisticated and critical dialogue between systems-control and process-relational perspectives on organisation/organising, that confronts head-on the tensions between structure and agency in the workplace. The text examines working life from a holistic and ethically sensitive standpoint, vividly brought to life with pointed 'cases and conversions' that clearly illustrate the old dictum that there is nothing so practical as good theory. Beautifully written and highly integrated, this is the text for the theoretically-inclined practitioner, the new breed of MBA student that academics aspire to." "Karen Legge, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Warwick Business School "This is quite simply the most exhilarating and witty aid to the study of management and organisations that I have come across for a long time. It will change irrevocably for the better teaching and learning in these areas. Buy it and enjoy it!" "Yiannis Gabriel, Professor of Organisational Theory, Imperial College Management School

Table of Contents

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

Additional information

GOR001562510
9780273630050
0273630059
Organising and Managing Work: Organisational, managerial and strategic behaviour in theory and practice by Tony Watson
Tony Watson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education Limited
2001-10-31
564
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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