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Summary
Summary
This book views management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox. In particular, it develops the body of work concerned with building experienced-based, grounded description and understanding of the processes of management and managing.
The contributors explore: the dynamics, subtleties and complexities of managerial life; its informal as well as formalized features and practices; and the significance of the cultural and symbolic in organizations. There is a concern with meanings and the relationships between managerial talk, thought and action. The contributors also draw on both established social anthropological concepts - such as culture, myth, ritual, totem and taboo - for understanding the nature of managing, and concepts deriving from newer postmodernist themes and developments. Throughout, the book emphasizes the importance of critical reflection for learning and change in management and organization.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Making The Meaning of Management |
Understanding ManagementStephen Linstead |
Culture, Critique and Change |
The Meaning of Management and the Management of MeaningDan Gowler and Karen Legge |
Producing Clarity - Depoliticizing ControlDavid Golding |
Part 2 Defamiliarizing Management Practice |
Competence, Symbolic Activity and PromotabilityOmar Aktouf |
Management RitualsDavid Golding |
Maintaining Simplicity in the Chain of Command |
There to Here and No Way BackMichael L Rosen and Thomas P Mullen |
The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer |
Part 3 Rethinking Symbolic Management |
Management in ContextSteven P Feldman |
Culture and Organizational Change |
'We Are Our Own Policemen!'Stephen Lloyd Smith and Barry Wilkinson |
Organizing without Conflict |
Part 4 Consuming and Constructing Identity |
Marketing, or the Anthropology of ConsumptionRobert Grafton Small |
Autobiographical Acts and Organizational IdentitiesBarbara Czarniawska-Joerges |
Part 5 Changing Identities |
Between Managers and the ManagedPaul Jeffcutt |
The Processes of Organizational Transition |
Postmodernism Goes PracticalHugo Letiche |