Description
Book SynopsisRevised and extended for its second edition,
Contemporary Issues in Management provides a unique up-to-date view of the 'messy reality' of the complex management dilemmas facing workers and managers in the business environment today.
Using a critical approach, the authors offer original perspectives on organisational behaviour and the sociology of work. Presenting business case studies and analysis, this textbook covers a broad range of key themes, including ethical and social issues, diversity, migration, continuity and change. Chapters present research studies into diverse areas, from teleworking to apprenticeships, food production, volunteering and factory working.
This fully updated second edition textbook provides:
- Discussions of management issues in their wider philosophical and political contexts to allow students to have a broader understanding and interpretation of how management affects complex real-life situations
- Original and in-depth qualitative case studies present lived experience rather than abstract 'model' or 'idealised' problems for successful application of theory
- Examples of a wide range of management practices gives students the necessary knowledge for a globalised perspective on work and business
- A critical approach to the topic, to develop students' analytical skills to recognise problems, and suggest suitable solutions
- Questions and further reading sections for use in teaching and self study.
This textbook is an invaluable guide for those studying organisational behaviour and business management, as well as the sociology and ethnography of work and workplaces.
Contributors include: S.B. Emery, S. French, L. Hamilton, M. Keleman, D. Knights, A. Mangan, D. McCabe, L. Mitchell, T. Oultram, G. Pearson, U. Salmon, L. Stringer, E. Surman, N. Taylor
Table of ContentsContents: Part I Thinking Critically About Business Management 1. Is there another way of organising? Considering the possibilities of alternative organisations Anita Mangan 2. The corruption of business: A statement of a contemporary problem Gordon Pearson 3. Dignity and recognition through work Laura Mitchell 4. Facing the uncertainties and realities of work and migration in the ‘Brexit Age’ Steve French 5. Ambiguity as organisational practice: An American Pragmatist perspective Michaela Keleman Part II Contemporary Work: Conditions, Challenges and Alternatives 6. Is paternalism still relevant? Changing the culture in a UK insurance company Darren McCabe and David Knights 7. Taken over by technology: remote work, anxious work or no work at all? Emma Surman 8. “One Day, All This Will Be Yours”: A Bourdieusian Exploration of Innovation in the Family Firm Udeni Salmon 9. Disjointed, degraded and divided? A tale of dirty work at the chicken factory Lindsay Hamilton and Darren McCabe 10. Hard work, productivity and the management of the farmed environment Steven B. Emery 11. Youth employment, masculinity and policy Teresa Oultram and Lee Stringer 12. Caring Companions: Volunteering, identity and morality in the rescue shelter Nik Taylor and Lindsay Hamilton Index
