Management, organisation and employment strategy : new directions in theory and practice / Tony J. Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, Tony J., author.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Organizations

Routledge Library Editions: Organizations: Theory & Behaviour ; Volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Personnel management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (436 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book brings together in a single volume material and issues normally treated separately, such as management studies, organisation theory, personnel management, industrial relations and motivation theory. Traditional topics such as the Hawthorne Experiments, Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy and Maslow's hierarchy of needs are put into perspective, along with ideas about organisational cultures, the labour process and the idea of corporate employment strategies.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1 Theory, Practice and Commonsense; Critical Commonsense; Constructive Scepticism; Theorists and Practitioners; Hard Heads and Soft Hearts; People and Systems; Coming to Terms with Conflict and ambiguity; 2 Management and Managing: Images and Reality; Managerial Insecurity and Defensiveness; Management: Art, Science, Politics or Magic?; What do Managers do?; Variety in Managerial Work; Managerial Language: Battling and surviving; The Nature of Management

3 Organisations: Structure, Process and EffectivenessThe Organisation as a Machine; The Organisation as a Living Organism; The Organisation as a Social, Political and Economic Process; Organisational and Managerial Effectiveness; 4 Motivation, Leadership and Employee Management; People as Machines; People with Needs; People and Processes; Effective Motivation, Leadership and Job Design?; 5 Employment Strategy and the Problems of Managing People; The Concept of Employment Strategy; Four Approaches to Variations in Employment Strategy; Tensions and Contradictions in the Employment of People

Employment Strategies: Choice and Variation6 The Employment Specialists: Personnel Management; Definitions and Insecurities; Personnel Management: Tasks and Functions; Personnel Management and Ambiguity; The Origins of the Personnel Specialism; Management, Personnel Management and Professionalism; Expedience and Choice in Personnel Management: Britain and Japan; The Personnel Department: Size and Influence; Managers and Personnel Managers; 7 Emerging Policies, Practices and Possibilities; State Involvement and Context; Personnel and Employment Practices

Organisational Shapes and Staffing PatternsThe Implications of new Information Technologies; Industrial Relations; And in the End....; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

First published in 1986 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 29, 2013).

ISBN:

1-135-94722-8

0-203-66000-5

9780203660003

OCLC:

843642667