240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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What is management and how do the people who become managers take on a managerial identity? How does text inform the manager's identity? From cultural studies we understand that the relationship between text and reader is not passive but that each one works upon the other, and that text is active in forming the identity of the reader. This books is the first to analyse how many management... Read more
1. Introduction - Management and the Manager as Social Construction Part 1: Construction 2. Management as Text Part 2: Deconstruction 3. Management as Science 4. Management as Legal Authority 5. Management as Art 6. Management as Modernity Part 3: Reconstruction 7. The Managerial Self 8. The Social Construction of Management
Biography
Nancy Harding is Senior Lecturer in Management at the Nuffield Institute at the University of Leeds. She has written widely on the subject of critical management, social construction and health-related topics.
