Managing in the Modern Corporation

John Hassard is Professor of Organisational Analysis at Manchester Business School, Manchester University, and Fellow in Management Learning at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Professor Hassard has published 13 books, over 100 research articles and received a large number of awards from UK research councils. He is currently a council member of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. Leo McCann is Lecturer in International and Comparative Management at Manchester Business School, Manchester University. He has conducted qualitative research in many large firms across several countries, from transitional to highly developed economies. He has published a number of articles on the subject of white-collar work in journals such as Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. Jonathan Morris is Professor in Organisational Analysis and Head of the Human Resource Management Section at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He has written a number of books on human resource management and employment studies and regularly publishes in journals such as Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Public Administration, and Human Relations.

• Acknowledgements; About the cover; 1. Going under the knife: downsizing and delayering the modern corporation; 2. Exploring corporate life: a realist view on management restructuring; 3. Living in the house that Jack built: management restructuring in America; 4. Maximising shareholder value: management restructuring in Britain; 5. New world of the salaryman: management restructuring in Japan; 6. Fighting back? Addressing the human costs of management restructuring; Appendix; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index.

Review of the hardback: 'They are disparaged and downsized, yet middle managers are the backbone of contemporary organizations. At last, we have a study that takes the middle-managers' world seriously, and chronicles the ruthless pressures to which they have been subjected in recent years as well as their strategies for survival and resistance. Through extensive interviewing and an impressively thorough review of the evidence, Hassard, Morris and McCann reveal startling similarities in the condition of middle managers across the UK, USA and Japan.' Paul Adler Professor of Management and Organisation, University of Southern California