Organizational Management

Organizational Management: Approaches and Solutions is a clear and accessible text fusing normative, critical and practitioner aspects of organizational management. It provides useful and practical guidelines for planning, organizing, leading and controlling the efforts of members and resources to achieve stated organizational goals. For final year students and recent graduates, the text will be a preparation for the realities of the work environment and will allow them to relate theory to these new contexts in a meaningful manner. Organizational Management: Approaches and Solutions is also ideal for managers who have reached their current position through a technical, sales or other vocational route and are looking to develop their theoretical understanding of organizational management. Case studies are drawn from the authors' international work in global knowledge transfer and consultancy projects across a range of business and industrial sectors including utilities, construction, publishing, aerospace, emergency services and local government. The book includes: box sections; key point summary lists; famous quotations; diagrams and images drawn from key literature; vignettes/cameo stories to illustrate points, as well as case studies and self-testing sections and scenarios with suggested and indicative answers. A central feature of the text is the interconnection of the sections of the work which are related to and cross-referred to each other so that you can undertake individual 'journeys' through the work.