A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Theory: Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
Autor Todd Bridgman, Stephen Cummingsen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2020
In Management Theory, Todd Bridgman and Stephen Cummings uncover enduring myths about famous theorists, from Adam Smith and Max Weber to Frederick Taylor, Mary Parker Follett, Abraham Maslow and Kurt Lewin. By exploring how these myths became cast as the foundations of management, this accessible and engaging book generates new ways of thinking about what management could be today and in the future.
Students can head to YouTube to watch a selection of specially-curated, bitesize videos - 20 Insights on Management Theory - which explain key topics relating to management theory. Lecturers can visit https://study.sagepub.com/bridgman to access a range of PowerPoint slides that can be used in their teaching.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1526495139
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications Ltd
Seria Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Recenzii
Todd Bridgman and Stephen Cummings make studying management theory very different to what you might expect. Instead of going through the same tired old clichés, they breathe new life into the subject by taking an excitingly critical approach. What’s more, they write with a light touch that makes reading their book straightforward but at the same time both refreshing and invigorating.
If our goal for students is memorizing indubitable facts and seeing the world from a managerialist perspective, then any of the existing long, boring, and expensive texts on management will do just fine. But if educating our students about management involves critical thinking, questioning basic assumptions, and looking at things from different perspectives, then Bridgman and Cummings’ “short, interesting, and cheap” book is mandatory reading.
Bridgman and Cummings do it again – produce a user-friendly, entertaining and profoundly informative book on management. The book is tailor-made for faculty and students alike who want to understand the relationship between historical context, management theory and the application of management practice. Yet, do we need “another book on management?” Yes, if it informs through critique of standard works on management and yes if its written by Todd Bridgman and Steve Cummings.
I recommend this textbook for teachers and students alike and will be using it as an aid to learning to thinking differently on my own module. I was engaged by the authors’ conversational style and stimulated to reflect on my assumptions, which is the hallmark of critical reflection. This small book is replete with an unusually large number of incisive and important ideas, which is a testament to authors’ knowledge, identity work and sociological imagination.
Cuprins
Chapter 2 The Classical School: Looking again at the foundations of management theory
Chapter 3 Management theory discovers the human worker
Chapter 4 Fitting the worker to the organization: Personality, groups, teams and culture
Chapter 5 Heroic leaders and the glorification of change
Chapter 6 The rise of ethics and corporate social responsibility
Chapter 7 Conclusion: The past, present and future of management theory
Notă biografică
Todd Bridgman (@toddbridgman) is Associate Professor in the School of Management at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Todd completed his PhD in organization studies at the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie at the intersection of management history, management education and critical management studies. In particular, he is interested in challenging conventional histories of management that appear in textbooks and writing alternative histories as a way of rethinking how management is taught to students. Todd edited The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies (Oxford University Press, 2009) with Mats Alvesson and Hugh Willmott and his research won Best Paper prizes in Human Relations (with Stephen Cummings and Kenneth Brown) and Academy of Management Learning and Education (with Stephen Cummings and Colm McLaughlin). Todd is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Management Learning and is a member of the editorial boards of Academy of Management Learning and Education and Organization.