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`It is an outstanding piece of work: no ordinary text, but a book bursting with attitude, that presents a compelling state-of-the-art overview of the big issues that confront managers today' - Charles Harvey, Professor of Business History and Management
`Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis have significantly raised the bar for designing introductory management textbooks from the learner's perspective. These are clearly passionate teachers who wish to help students flourish in organizational surroundings and master the craft of management. For students beginning the management career trek, I'm confident that this book will become a trusted, well-worn text' - David A Whetten, Brigham Young University
`The real genius of Managing and Organizations is that it is thorough without being burdensome, inclusive without being marginal, scholarly without being heavy-handed, and relevant without being trite. And to top it all off, it's eminently readable. This is a rare feat indeed! I intend on adopting this book for my courses and recommending it to my colleagues. Managing and Organizations is an important book that, in my judgment, is an exemplar of integrative thinking that should be required reading for all students of management, whether they pursue scholarship, pedagogy, or practice' - James Bailey, George Washington University London Business School
Managing and Organizations is a comprehensive, engaging, and accessible textbook that brings the most recent theoretical developments to bear on management practice, while explaining organizational and management issues from a practical standpoint. This text combines insights from organization theory, organizational behaviour, and business strategy to offer an easily understood overview of management and organization thought and practice. In a friendly and open style the authors show the major changes that are currently taking place in both research and practice in management and organization studies and offer insights into new directions the field might take. Vignettes from a variety of material, including films, novels, and newspapers illustrate key themes related to contemporary organizations and organization theory.
Key Features
- Offers a broad coverage of general management issues
- Provides an accessible introduction into exciting theories
- Describes the history of a topic as well as the current state of the art
- Offers further reading suggestions and learning checklists
- Utilizes tables, figures, images and boxes as tools for learning, questioning and examining the material.
- Encourages students to critique and engage
The text is also supported by an instructor's manual and an interactive website (click on the companion website logo link above or key www.ckmanagement.net into your web browser) that provides additional material for teachers and students, including more cases, quick quizzes, short movies from renowned experts introducing students to main themes, as well as a free online reader of key journal articles that relate to the topics discussed. The instructor's manual will be available free to teachers adopting the text for use on their courses.
Managing and Organizations will inspire, motivate, and encourage students of management, organizational behavior, and organization studies to learn and explore their subject of study with a keen interest.
Table of contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: MAKING SENSE OF MANAGEMENT
Making Sense of Management
History, Science, Perspectives
Managing Rationalities
Modernity, Postmodernity, Embeddedness
Managing Realities
Pathologies, New Forms, Dialectics
PART TWO: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
Managing Organization Design
Structure - Environment - Fit
Managing Power and Politics in Organizations
Resistance - Empowerment - Ethics
Managing Organizational Behavior
Personalities - Teams - Emotions
Managing Leadership
Motivation, Inspiration, Transformation
Managing Cultures
Values - Practice - Manipulation
Managing Communications
Identity - Sensemaking - Polyphony
PART THREE: MANAGING CHANGE
Managing Knowledge and Learning
Communities, Collaboration, Boundaries
Managing Innovation and Change
Creativity - Chaos - Foolishness
Managing Strategy
Competition - Games - Differences
Managing Globalization
Global Flows - Winners and Losers - Local Specialization
`It is an outstanding piece of work: no ordinary text, but a book bursting with attitude, that presents a compelling state-of-the-art overview of the big issues that confront managers today' - Charles Harvey, Professor of Business History and Management
`Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis have significantly raised the bar for designing introductory management textbooks from the learner's perspective. These are clearly passionate teachers who wish to help students flourish in organizational surroundings and master the craft of management. For students beginning the management career trek, I'm confident that this book will become a trusted, well-worn text' - David A Whetten, Brigham Young University
`The real genius of Managing and Organizations is that it is thorough without being burdensome, inclusive without being marginal, scholarly without being heavy-handed, and relevant without being trite. And to top it all off, it's eminently readable. This is a rare feat indeed! I intend on adopting this book for my courses and recommending it to my colleagues. Managing and Organizations is an important book that, in my judgment, is an exemplar of integrative thinking that should be required reading for all students of management, whether they pursue scholarship, pedagogy, or practice' - James Bailey, George Washington University London Business School
Managing and Organizations is a comprehensive, engaging, and accessible textbook that brings the most recent theoretical developments to bear on management practice, while explaining organizational and management issues from a practical standpoint. This text combines insights from organization theory, organizational behaviour, and business strategy to offer an easily understood overview of management and organization thought and practice. In a friendly and open style the authors show the major changes that are currently taking place in both research and practice in management and organization studies and offer insights into new directions the field might take. Vignettes from a variety of material, including films, novels, and newspapers illustrate key themes related to contemporary organizations and organization theory.
Key Features
- Offers a broad coverage of general management issues
- Provides an accessible introduction into exciting theories
- Describes the history of a topic as well as the current state of the art
- Offers further reading suggestions and learning checklists
- Utilizes tables, figures, images and boxes as tools for learning, questioning and examining the material.
- Encourages students to critique and engage
The text is also supported by an instructor's manual and an interactive website (click on the companion website logo link above or key www.ckmanagement.net into your web browser) that provides additional material for teachers and students, including more cases, quick quizzes, short movies from renowned experts introducing students to main themes, as well as a free online reader of key journal articles that relate to the topics discussed. The instructor's manual will be available free to teachers adopting the text for use on their courses.
Managing and Organizations will inspire, motivate, and encourage students of management, organizational behavior, and organization studies to learn and explore their subject of study with a keen interest.
Table of contents:
Introduction
PART ONE: MAKING SENSE OF MANAGEMENT
Making Sense of Management
History, Science, Perspectives
Managing Rationalities
Modernity, Postmodernity, Embeddedness
Managing Realities
Pathologies, New Forms, Dialectics
PART TWO: MANAGING ORGANIZATIONS
Managing Organization Design
Structure - Environment - Fit
Managing Power and Politics in Organizations
Resistance - Empowerment - Ethics
Managing Organizational Behavior
Personalities - Teams - Emotions
Managing Leadership
Motivation, Inspiration, Transformation
Managing Cultures
Values - Practice - Manipulation
Managing Communications
Identity - Sensemaking - Polyphony
PART THREE: MANAGING CHANGE
Managing Knowledge and Learning
Communities, Collaboration, Boundaries
Managing Innovation and Change
Creativity - Chaos - Foolishness
Managing Strategy
Competition - Games - Differences
Managing Globalization
Global Flows - Winners and Losers - Local Specialization
It gives me very great pleasure to endorse the 6th edition of Managing and Organizations. The authors have once again refined and expanded this brilliant and authoritative guide to the field of management and organization studies a guide that has long been the go to reference point for students, academics and practitioners alike. The logic behind the book is outstanding, moving from analysing foundational issues of managing individuals, teams and groups (in Part One), to considering how organizational practices are affected by issues of culture, power and conflict (in Part Two), finally to discussion of wider contextual effects of ethics, globalization and sustainability on organizational processes (in Part Three). A must buy for all those interested in how organizations and institutions are managed in these exceptionally dynamic and turbulent times. Professor John Hassard