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  • Once Upon a Time in Facilities Management

    Tales from an Organizational Netherworld

    by Dr Patricia McCarroll, Prof John Hassard ...
    What would the world of work look like if interpreted through the lens of the fairytale? To answer this question Once Upon a Time in Facilities Management explores storied spaces and metaphorical archetypes in the study of business, management, and organization. At its core, the authors offer a diagnostic approach for the study of work organization that links management theory, storytelling, and ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: Towards a New Theory of Organizations (1994)

    Edited by John Hassard, Martin Parker ...
    First published in 1994, the essays collected in this book explore the impact and current status of the ideas put forth in David Silverman’s The Theory of Organizations, and how they relate to future directions in organization theory. After opening with a chapter by Silverman himself, the subsequent chapters investigate key issues in the study of organizations, including structure and agency, the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Deconstructing the Welfare State

    Managing Healthcare in the Age of Reform

    by Paula Hyde, Edward Granter, John Hassard, Leo McCann ...
    Who are NHS middle managers? What do they do, and why and how do they do it’?This book explores the daily realities of working life for middle managers in the UK’s National Health Service during a time of radical change and disruption to the entire edifice of publicly-funded healthcare. It is an empirical critique of the movement towards a healthcare model based around HMO-type providers such as ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Critical Leadership

    Leader-Follower Dynamics in a Public Organization

    by Paul Evans, John Hassard, Paula Hyde ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Critical approaches to leadership studies have sought to challenge the normative position of leadership as residing solely within the formal leader and have gone as far as to undermine the traditionally held assumption of leadership as a "real" phenomenon.The book offers a critical account of the nature of leadership and management in modern organizations. Specifically it examines the forces that ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A New History of Management

    by Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman, John Hassard, Michael Rowlinson ...
    Existing narratives about how we should organize are built upon, and reinforce, a concept of 'good management' derived from what is assumed to be a fundamental need to increase efficiency. But this assumption is based on a presentist, monocultural, and generally limited view of management's past. A New History of Management disputes these foundations. By reassessing conventional perspectives on ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

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  • Time, Work and Organization

    by Paul Blyton, John Hassard, Stephen Hill, Ken Starkey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Human Resource Management
    In this book, first published in 1989, the authors have sought to highlight some of the major themes in the study of time and work within separate but related fields of study. A number of common starting points and issues are examined, alongside the various conclusions which different researchers have drawn together. Working together, the four authors have enriched their individual understanding ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Inside the Compassionate Organization

    Culture, Identity, and Image in an English Hospice

    by Alan Baron, John Hassard, Fiona Cheetham, Sudi Sharifi ...
    The literature on management and organization studies suggests the time is right for a focus on 'care and compassion'. The aim of this book is to answer this call by examining the cultural changes found within a particular 'compassionate organization' - an English hospice - from its altruistic beginnings to the more professionalized culture of today. The study seeks to understand how its members ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Contested Bodies

    Edited by John Hassard, Ruth Holliday ...
    The body occupies a prime position in contemporary theoretical work, yet still there is no consensus on exactly what it is and what constitutes it. Contested Bodies brings together a number of different accounts and perspectives on the body, drawing out some of the key connections and disjunctures from this most contested of topics. This volume features fresh and fascinating contributions from ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations

    Critical Issues and New Perspectives

    Edited by John Hassard, Denis Pym ...
    The Theory and Philosophy of Organizations makes a major contribution to the debate on the status of organizational theory as a discipline. The volume is divided into three sections exploring issues under the headings `theory', `anasis' and `philosophy'. In each, the limitations of `traditional' or `scientific' organizational paradigms are illuminated and new forms of interpretation offered. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change

    Edited by David Boje, Bernard Burnes, John Hassard ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Organizations change. They grow, they adapt, they evolve. The effects of organizational change are important, varied and complex and analyzing and understanding them is vital for students, academics and researchers in all business schools.The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the field. The volume brings together the very best ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • China's State Enterprise Reform

    From Marx to the Market

    by John Hassard, Jackie Sheehan, Meixiang Zhou, Jane Terpstra-Tong, Jonathan Morris ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China.Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978, including assessments of the Contrast Responsiblity System, which operated ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Managing in the Modern Corporation

    The Intensification of Managerial Work in the USA, UK and Japan

    by John Hassard, Leo McCann, Jonathan Morris ...
    In recent years, widespread organisational change in large corporations has almost invariably led to work intensification and increased stress for managers. Managing in the Modern Corporation explains how and why large companies have changed their organisational structures and philosophies, focusing in particular on how these changes affect the careers of middle managers. Based on in-depth ... Read more

    $38.59 USD