Inside Management Studying Organizational Practices
“Participant observations of positions high in the hierarchy are very rare; not the least because the job is too demanding to play the two roles – of participant and an observer – at the same time. This is why both students and general readers will be ver
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Studying Organizational Practices David Vickers
Inside Management “Participant observations of positions high in the hierarchy are very rare; not the least because the job is too demanding to play the two roles—of participant and an observer—at the same time. This is why both students and general readers will be very pleased to learn what a Human Resource Manager actually does—from David Vickers’ book”. —Barbara Czarniawska, Professor of Management Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden “A strong ethnographic account of managerial and HR work. I will definitely have a copy on my bookcase”. —Aileen Lawless, Reader in Human Resource Development (HRD) and Head of the Leadership, Education and Development (LEAD) research group at Liverpool Business School, UK
David Vickers
Inside Management Studying Organizational Practices
David Vickers Institute for Research into Organisation University of Central Lancashire Preston, Kirkcudbrightshire, UK
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I dedicate this text to Brian and Mary for instilling a passion for learning and fairness in me.
Preface
This book provides a series of insider accounts about managerial and Human Resource practices. Such accounts are still very rare, with the most notable accounts in long form (books) being from 1959 (Dalton) and 1994 (Watson). There are several ethnographic accounts of workers perspectives but not from managerial ones. As such,
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