Management

Keith Grint is a lecturer in Management Studies and Fellow in Organizational Behaviour at Templeton College, Oxford.

• Acknowledgements. 1. Into the Heart of Darkness: A Short Theoretical Journey.2. The Black Ships: The Historical Development of British Management.3. Mimetic Pyrophobes: What are Managers, What do Managers do, and Why do they do What they do?.4. From Silent Monitors: The Long and Relatively Unhappy Life of Managing Appraisals.5. Reengineering Utopia: Managing Radical Change.6. The Alchemy of Leadership.7. The Culture of Management and the Management of Culture.8. Managing Gender Inequality through Technology.9. Fatalism, Freewill and Control: An Index of Possibilities.10. Reflections.Bibliography.Index.

"This is a wonderfully refreshing and stimulating book - and there aren't many books about management that can be described in these terms!" Graeme Salaman, Open University "The thoughtful reader will learn a great deal." Work, Employment and Society