Understanding Management

My background includes undergraduate and Masters degrees in English Literature from the universities of Keele and Leeds , and a further Masters in Organization Development and PhD from what is now Sheffield Hallam University . More recently I was awarded a D.LItt from Durham University . I have held Chairs in Wollongong (NSW), Sunderland . Essex and Durham before moving to York . I also spent 2 years as a Visting Scholar at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

PART ONE: MAKING THE MEANING OF MANAGEMENT Understanding Management - Stephen Linstead Culture, Critique and Change The Meaning of Management and the Management of Meaning - Dan Gowler and Karen Legge Producing Clarity - Depoliticizing Control - David Golding PART TWO: DEFAMILIARIZING MANAGEMENT PRACTICE Competence, Symbolic Activity and Promotability - Omar Aktouf Management Rituals - David Golding Maintaining Simplicity in the Chain of Command There to Here and No Way Back - Michael L Rosen and Thomas P Mullen The Late Life of a Cocaine Dealer PART THREE: RETHINKING SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT Management in Context - Steven P Feldman Culture and Organizational Change `We Are Our Own Policemen!' - Stephen Lloyd Smith and Barry Wilkinson Organizing without Conflict PART FOUR: CONSUMING AND CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY Marketing, or the Anthropology of Consumption - Robert Grafton Small Autobiographical Acts and Organizational Identities - Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges PART FIVE: CHANGING IDENTITIES Between Managers and the Managed - Paul Jeffcutt The Processes of Organizational Transition Postmodernism Goes Practical - Hugo Letiche

`A most interesting collection of critical current thinking' - Journal of Managerial Psychology '12 articles that review management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes "often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox" is Understanding Management' - Long Range Planning