The Work of Managers
Towards a Practice Theory of Management
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199639724
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 240x161x28 mm
- Weight 739 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The book provides an overview of research, theory, and methodology on the realities of managerial work and presents a number of empirical studies on various kinds of managers within different sectors and at different levels of organizations. It uses the behaviour and activities of successful managers as primary data for a theory of good management.
MoreLong 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.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Framework
Overcoming the Rationalist Fallacy in Management Research
Management in Practice: Overview of Classic Studies on Managerial Work
Part Two: A Practice Perspective on Leadership and Managerial Work
Well Then - What Now? An Everyday Approach to Managerial Leadership?
Managerial Leadership: Identities, Processes, and Interactions
Multi-framing as a Tool in Top Management Teams
Part Three: Operational Managerial Work
Work Activities and Stress Among Managers in Health Care
Leadership as Muddling Through: Site Managers in the Construction Industry
R&D Managers Leading Knowledge Workers with Care
Part Four: Administrative Managerial Work
Managers at the Municipal Top
The Swedish Municipality Director: A Managerial Function between Politics and Administration
Leaders of Modern Universities: Primi Inter Pares or Chief Executive Officers?
Managerial Work at the Top: Tracing Changes in Work Practices and Efforts Towards Theory Development
Part Five: Managerial Work in Small Businesses
Managerial Behaviour in Small Firms: Does it Matter What Managers Do?
The Duality of Strategic Managerial Work in SMEs: A Structuration Perspective
Managerial Practices in Family Owned Firms: Strategizing Actors, their Arenas and their Emotions
Part Six: The Way Forward
Refining Shadowing Methods for Studying Managerial Work
Bridging the Management Theory and Practice Gap
Conclusion and the Way Forward: Towards a Practice Theory of Management
