In Search of Management (Revised Edition) Culture, Chaos and Control in Managerial Work

Foreword. Preface to the Revised Edition. Preface. Introduction. 1. Managing and Making Sense: Culture, Control and Dialogue. 2. Management: An Activity in Search of Itself. 3. Managers in Search of Themselves. 4. The Organisation in Search of Itself. 5. Strategy and Culture in Practice: A Tale of Two Rhetorics. 6. Means, Ends and Going Around in Circles. 7. Managing Management: Theory, Practice and Emotion. 8. Managing to Manage: Language, Humour, Gender and Home. 9. Culture, Competence and Keeping Faith. Appendix: A Scheme of Management Competences. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index