Making Sense of Management A Critical Introduction 2nd edition by Mats Alvesson,Hugh Willmott 9781849200851 1849200858

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ISBN 10:1849200858
ISBN 13: 9781849200851
Author:Mats Alvesson,Hugh Willmott 

The first edition of Making Sense of Management set out to provide a fresh perspective on management that was both broad and critical, exploring how the disruptive and constructive potential of critical theory can be realized in organizations. Along the way, it has proven to be a landmark contribution to critical management studies. As well as setting the agenda for current research, this revised edition has been written to appeal to a broader readership and open up critical theory for the general management student.   New sections on HRM, brands, identity, ethics and leadership have been fully developed alongside the rest of the text to reflect the current state of play in critical management studies.   The second edition of Making Sense of Management will be of interest to students and researchers in critical management studies and students on general management courses with a critical perspective.

Making Sense of Management A Critical Introduction 2nd Table of contents:

PART I INTRODUCING CRITICAL THEORY TO MANAGEMENT

1 Management in Critical Perspective

Seductions of capitalism and the limits of ‘progress’

Beyond the understanding of management as a technical activity

Critical theory and modern society

The capacity for critical reflection

Critical thinking and management practice

The challenge of change and the vision of democracy

Making sense of management: Unpacking the received wisdom

Making sense of management: Sketching a critical perspective

Managers as agents and targets of instrumental reason

Conclusion

Notes

2 Critical Thinking: Forms of Knowledge and the Limits of Critique

The limits of scientific knowledge

Science and Critical Theory

The unfolding of critical thinking about management and organization

Four paradigms for analysing management

The critical tradition

Some themes in Critical Theory

Critiques of Critical Theory

Summary and conclusion

Notes

PART II MANAGEMENT SPECIALISMS IN A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

3 Critical Conceptualizations of Management

On metaphors and metaphorical understanding

Critical theoretic conceptualizations of management

Conclusion

Notes

4 Critically Assessing Management Specialisms I: Organization Theory, HRM and Leadership

Organization theory

Human resource management

Leadership

Summary

Notes

5 Critically Assessing Management Specialisms II: Marketing and Strategic Management

Marketing

Strategic management

Conclusion

Notes

6 Critically Assessing Management Specialisms III: Accounting, Information Systems and Operational Research

Accounting

Information systems

Operational research

Conclusion

Notes

PART III RECASTING CRITICAL THEORY AND MANAGEMENT

7 Recasting Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies

Management and emancipation

Critiques of Critical Theory

Reconceptualizing emancipation

Emancipation: Types and foci

Summary and conclusion

Notes

8 Critical Theory and Management Practice

Means of promoting progressive social change

CMS and career choices

CMS and decision making

Global justice and critical management

Situating CMS in the context of management education and research

Education as agenda setting

From action learning to critical action learning

Conclusion

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