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Controversies in management : issues, debates, answers

Author: Alan Thomas
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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Modern managers cope not only with a complex and ever changing world, but also with diverse ways of understanding and managing it. This second edition sets out to explore some of these puzzles and provides a guide to the different key theories and approaches to management that have developed over the years.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Alan Thomas
ISBN: 0415269008 9780415269001 0415269016 9780415269018
OCLC Number: 50581938
Notes: Previous ed.: 1993.
Description: ix, 260 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Controversies in management --
What is management? A term in search of a meaning --
What is management? Exploitation, politics and magic --
The social sciences: Can they help managers? --
Principles of management: Valid or vacuous? --
Getting ahead in management: Meritocracy or myth? --
Gender in management: Must men manage? --
Organizational leadership: Does it make a difference? --
Managing all over the world: One way or many? --
The future of management: Business as unusual?
Responsibility: Alan Berkeley Thomas.

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Modern managers cope not only with a complex and ever changing world, but also with diverse ways of understanding and managing it. This second edition sets out to explore some of these puzzles and provides a guide to the different key theories and approaches to management that have developed over the years.

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