Students gain valuable insights into real, contemporary business as they examine today's best management practices. This edition helps students establish and build upon practical skills they can readily apply to future or current careers.
Understanding Management
Organizations have slack; this builds up in excess staffing or budgets when times are good. When search kicks in, slack is removed. Removing slack involves negotiation between interest groups. Slack is a necessary concept since it is ...
This book will be my first choice in the future for introducing doctoral students of management-related subject to the philosophical underpinning they require for their studies.
′A broad-ranging and highly intelligent account of key recent developments internationally which skillfully updates the public management and governance literatures′ - Ewan Ferlie, Royal Holloway ′Public management has been radically ...
This edition helps readers establish and build on practical skills with engaging examples and numerous skill-building and application exercises in every chapter.
In the second edition of Understanding Project Management, skilled expert Dave C. Barrett offers a well-updated, practical real-world guide for current and aspiring project managers.
This book views management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox.
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The book has been written for undergraduate and postgraduate students on one-semester or short courses.