LEADER 04338oam 2200673I 450 001 9910811412803321 005 20240131141453.0 010 $a1-135-94722-8 010 $a0-203-66000-5 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203660003 035 $a(CKB)2670000000357902 035 $a(EBL)1186467 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000909352 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12430831 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000909352 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10913118 035 $a(PQKB)10259430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1186467 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1186467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10699341 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL487129 035 $a(OCoLC)843642667 035 $a(OCoLC)855787217 035 $a(OCoLC)849924978 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB132942 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000357902 100 $a20180706e20131986 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aManagement, organisation and employment strategy $enew directions in theory and practice /$fTony J. Watson 210 1$aOxon [England] :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (436 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge Library Editions: Organizations: Theory & Behaviour ;$vVolume 30 300 $aFirst published in 1986 by Routledge & Kegan Paul. 311 $a1-138-98030-7 311 $a0-415-82505-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Introduction; 1 Theory, Practice and Commonsense; Critical Commonsense; Constructive Scepticism; Theorists and Practitioners; Hard Heads and Soft Hearts; People and Systems; Coming to Terms with Conflict and ambiguity; 2 Management and Managing: Images and Reality; Managerial Insecurity and Defensiveness; Management: Art, Science, Politics or Magic?; What do Managers do?; Variety in Managerial Work; Managerial Language: Battling and surviving; The Nature of Management 327 $a3 Organisations: Structure, Process and EffectivenessThe Organisation as a Machine; The Organisation as a Living Organism; The Organisation as a Social, Political and Economic Process; Organisational and Managerial Effectiveness; 4 Motivation, Leadership and Employee Management; People as Machines; People with Needs; People and Processes; Effective Motivation, Leadership and Job Design?; 5 Employment Strategy and the Problems of Managing People; The Concept of Employment Strategy; Four Approaches to Variations in Employment Strategy; Tensions and Contradictions in the Employment of People 327 $aEmployment Strategies: Choice and Variation6 The Employment Specialists: Personnel Management; Definitions and Insecurities; Personnel Management: Tasks and Functions; Personnel Management and Ambiguity; The Origins of the Personnel Specialism; Management, Personnel Management and Professionalism; Expedience and Choice in Personnel Management: Britain and Japan; The Personnel Department: Size and Influence; Managers and Personnel Managers; 7 Emerging Policies, Practices and Possibilities; State Involvement and Context; Personnel and Employment Practices 327 $aOrganisational Shapes and Staffing PatternsThe Implications of new Information Technologies; Industrial Relations; And in the End....; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe book brings together in a single volume material and issues normally treated separately, such as management studies, organisation theory, personnel management, industrial relations and motivation theory. Traditional topics such as the Hawthorne Experiments, Weber's ideal type of bureaucracy and Maslow's hierarchy of needs are put into perspective, along with ideas about organisational cultures, the labour process and the idea of corporate employment strategies. 410 0$aRoutledge Library Editions: Organizations 606 $aManagement 606 $aPersonnel management 615 0$aManagement. 615 0$aPersonnel management. 676 $a658 700 $aWatson$b Tony J.$0116371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811412803321 996 $aManagement, organisation and employment strategy$94037733 997 $aUNINA