Reluctant Managers: Their Work and Lifestyles

Reluctant managers: Their work and lifestyles

Business & Money

Scase, Richard

Management & Leadership

Unwin Hyman

Class (Concepts in Social Thought)

Of all the concepts used by sociologists for describing and explaining social relationships, social class is probably the most ambiguous, confusing and ill-defined. This is despite the fact that the development of sociology as an academic discipline has been intimately connected with class related issues. In this book, Richard Scase offers an introduction to the analysis of social class. Against a background of the failure of Soviet and East European state socialism he highlights the enduring importance of social class in Western capitalist society, which is characterized by relations of exploitation. He concludes that whilst Marxist categories continue to be invaluable, Marx's ideas for abolishing class must, towards the end of the 20th century, be seen to be utopian.

Class

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open University Press

Managing Creativity: The Dynamics of Work and Organization

The creative industries are a growing economic as well as cultural force. This book investigates their organizational dynamics and shows how companies structure their work processes to incorporate creative employees' needs for autonomy while at the same time controlling and coordinating their output. Research in television and radio broadcasting, publishing, advertising, the recorded music industry and the performing arts is used to show the variety of ways in which organizations respond to the creative imperative. The authors help to answer a larger question which has been neglected in theories of management and organizational behaviour, namely: what should replace the management principles and practices inherited from industrial society in the types of organization which predominate in post-industrial society? The arguments and evidence are made accessible to a multidisciplinary audience of students and researchers with an interest in the study of organizations as well as to managers in the creative industries.

Davis, Howard

DAVIS

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Open Univ Pr

The Real World of the Small Business Owner

Goffee, Robert

Economics

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

This work recognizes the human element in organization. In describing the relations and actions which constitute every organization, the authors assess the management issues and problems which invariably result. They further examine how the transition from small to large can be achieved, as well as reviewing recent attempts to recreate entrepreneurial forms of organization in the context of large complex ones. Finally it illustrates the contrasting fortunes of various organizations in their attempt to adapt to the new economic and social conditions of the 1990s.

Corporate Realities: The Dynamics of Large and Small Organisations (Organizational Behaviour and Management)

Cengage Learning EMEA

Demonstrates how the transition from small to large scale can be achieved by organizations and reviews recent attempts to recreate entrepreneurial forms of organization in the context of larger, more complex ones.

Corporate Realities: The Dynamics of Large and Small Organizations (Organizational Behaviour and Management)

This study aims to establish the attitudes, values and aspirations of British managers. The interviews were conducted in depth with men and women in both private and public sector organizations and explored their feelings about work and home to discover where their strongest allegiances lay. The report reveals that under increasing pressures at work and changing expectations at home, managers are fundamentally reluctant to fulfill the committed entrepreneurial roles that many have been allocating to them.

Political Science, Economy, Globalization

Western Capitalism and State Socialism: An Introduction

Blackwell*publishers

Real World of the Small Business Owner

Goffe, Robert

Routledge& Kegan Paul

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