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Informationen zum Autor In my work here in Nottingham I teach, write about and do research on organisations, managerial work, strategy-making, entrepreneurship, HRM and industrial sociology. The books I have written include The Personnel Managers (1977), Management, Organisation and Employment Strategy (1986), In Search of Management (1994/ 2001), The Emergent Manager (1999), Organising and Managing Work (2002) and Sociology, Work and Industry (5th edition 2008). A theme running through my work is the relationship between the emergent life strategies and identities of organisational members (especially entrepreneurs and strategy-makers) and emergent enterprises. Although I use a variety of different research methods, I make particular use of ethnographic techniques. I am especially enthusiastic about narrative (including film-based) forms of research reporting as means of teaching and providing insights to a range of audiences about the complexities, contradictions, pains and delights of organisational and business life. Klappentext The Emergent Manager looks closely at the lives of managers in a range of settings and how they make sense of their pasts, presents and futures as managers and as people with identities outside the workplace. This book provides a new understanding of the nature of management work and of the way people make sense of their lives as managers across a range of workplaces from civil service departments and building societies to shops, restaurants and schools. Zusammenfassung To provide an understanding of the nature of management work! this text concentrates on the lives and identities of real life managers inside and outside the workplace. The authors explore the experiences of people managing a variety of workplaces from civil service departments to restaurants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Making Sense of Managing Approaching and Entering Managerial Work Managing to Manage Learning to Manage and Managing to Learn Managing the Self and Fitting the Part Managing the Self and Playing the Part Managing Relationships and Doing the Right Thing Managing a Life at Work and Away from Work Boundaries, Balances and Priorities Managing Management Emergent Managers in a Changing World ...
