Management And The Dominance Of Managers

Author : Thomas Diefenbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135227659
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management and the Dominance of Managers written by Thomas Diefenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managers are powerful. The organizations of our time are in essence managerial organizations, even our societies are managerial societies. This book looks behind the portrait of management as value-free ‘technicality’ and challenges the image of managers as the selfless pursuer of an organization’s survival and development. It explains that individual interests and careers of managers are only part of a wider epochal and historic picture – the picture of managers as the new ruling class using and misusing organizations for their own personal and group interests while portraying their own roles and actions as ‘increasing the efficiency of organizations’ and ‘serving the public interest’. But why exactly are managers so powerful? Why and how do managers dominate our organizations? It will be argued that the prevailing understanding of management and managers is only at the surface about functional aspects. In its very core management has been, and is, all about the power and control, interests and ideology of managers--in short, the dominance of managers over other groups of people. In order to investigate and explain this dominance, a multi-dimensional ‘theory of social dominance of managers’, will be developed which reveals the personal and group interests behind such claims and is based in its core on three explanatory factors; power, interests, and ideology. These factors themselves will be analyzed as comprehensive, multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary concepts in order to address the complex nature of managers’ dominance appropriately.

Author : Thomas Diefenbach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135227667
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management and the Dominance of Managers written by Thomas Diefenbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Managers and managerialism -- Power and control within organisations -- Managers' interests in dominance -- The ideology of management -- A theory of the dominance of managers -- How managers create, justify, and conduct strategic change in their organisation : a case study -- Critique of management and orthodox organisations.

Author : David Collinson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803989290
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men as Managers, Managers as Men written by David Collinson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-09-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is the first international work to address the relationships between men, masculinities and managements. It examines the processes through which gendered managerial structures, cultures and practices are reproduced. Exploring top and middle managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and public and private sector managers, the book breaks new ground by critically examining the gendered power processes that have largely been assumed and ignored by conventional organizational and management theory. As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in w

Author : Leonard Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317035348
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dominance of Management written by Leonard Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development. Linking two British inner-city community development projects with projects in the developing world it shows how ’managed development’ runs counter to participatory values and aspirations of communities receiving development aid. This, in effect, mutes the voices of these communities. In conclusion, Holmes draws implications for the emerging community development agenda in urban development throughout the world.

Author : David Collinson
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1849208271
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Men as Managers, Managers as Men written by David Collinson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-09-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most managers in most organizations in most countries are men. This book is the first international work to address the relationships between men, masculinities and managements. It examines the processes through which gendered managerial structures, cultures and practices are reproduced. Exploring top and middle managers, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and public and private sector managers, the book breaks new ground by critically examining the gendered power processes that have largely been assumed and ignored by conventional organizational and management theory. As well as providing new insights into how managements and masculinities may reinforce each other, this challenging book ultimately explores the ways in which both management and men might be changed, even transformed.

Author : John Hendry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199656983
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management: A Very Short Introduction written by John Hendry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Very Short Introduction, John Hendry provides a lively introduction to the nature and principles of management. Tracing its development over the past century, Hendry looks not only at the jobs managers do today and their place in the culture of work, but also provides an insight into modern management theory.

Author : Ruud A.I. van Frederikslust
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134136056
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance written by Ruud A.I. van Frederikslust and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. Alternative perspectives on corporate governance systems -- pt. 2. Equity ownership structure and control -- pt. 3. Corporate governance, underperformance and management turnover -- pt. 4. Directors' remuneration -- pt. 5. Governance, performance and financial strategy -- pt. 6. On takeover as disciplinary mechanism.

Author : Zlatko Nedelko
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030199894
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Values and Managerial Behaviour written by Zlatko Nedelko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the influence of personal values on managerial behaviour in modern organizations, and how this impacts upon company performance and relationships. With a focus on central Europe, the authors explore the notion of a personal values system and seek to identify the influencing factors behind behaviour. Providing a new methodological and contextual framework which goes beyond established measurements, the book offers insights into the most important studies in the area and will provide valuable reading to academics in the fields of management, organization and HRM, as well as practitioners and policy-makers.

Author : Subramanian Rangan
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019106176X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance and Progress written by Subramanian Rangan and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prevailing aspiration of business is performance, while that of society is progress. Capitalism, both the paradigm and practice, sits at the intersection of these dual aspirations, and the essays in this volume explore its fraught status there. Contributions to this volume address questions such as (i) what's the problem with capitalism?; (ii) is the problem just with the practice or with the very paradigm?; (iii) what is progress and who is responsible for it?; (iv) what evolution is required at the individual, system, and paradigm level so that enterprises and the executives who lead them may better integrate performance with progress?; and (v) whither consumers, employees, and investors in this evolution? The book offers perspectives from two distinct intellectual domains-social science and philosophy. Scholars in social science (including economics, management, and sociology) tend to study performance. Ideas of progress, on the other hand, tend to fall more under the purview of philosophers (in particular social and political philosophers). Further, to obtain an insider's view on practice and possibilities, the volume includes essays from a handful of thoughtful business leaders. Research should consider not just how to make sustainability profitable, but also how to make profitability and the modern economic system sustainable. If we are to better comprehend why the world is in protest, to reflect on progress or dilemmas of trust, we must appreciate the tenuous assumptions of modern microeconomics and markets, and hear from modern philosophers about the basis and limits of rationality.

Author : Abraham Zaleznik
Publisher : Harpercollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060917081
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Managerial Mystique written by Abraham Zaleznik and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the dangers of managerial tunnel vision, questions the lessons of today's elite MBA programs, and discloses the elements of successful leadership