Overview
Views management through a variety of critical lenses
Provides insider accounts of every day managerial and HR practices
Offers an ethnographic account from a critical managerial perspective
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This pivot includes a series of inside ethnographic accounts and stories about managerial practices and processes, providing a critical account of managerial and HR practices. It seeks to advance thinking in the theoretical areas of strategy-as-practice (SasP), Actor-Network Theory, human resource management practices and safety as practice. Offering a unique insider insight to decision-making and strategy within an organization, the chapters demonstrate how practices are constructed and implemented for a range of systems and policies. Employing an ethnographic approach also gives an opportunity to assess the interpretation and deployment of procedures, policies and practices in order to control and achieve conformity to organizational goals. It satisfies a demand for richer descriptions of managerial practices in situ that can be used to challenge and critique traditional approaches, and guide researchers to apply an SasP and ANT perspective in other organizational settings.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Vickers is an Organisational Development and HR Consultant and a Charity Trustee. He worked in a UK University for 20 years teaching HR practitioners. Prior to working in academia, David had 18 years' experience as a senior HR practitioner. His research interests include ethnography, Actor-Network Theory and critical human resource management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inside Management
Book Subtitle: Studying Organizational Practices
Authors: David Vickers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61935-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61934-3Published: 13 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61937-4Published: 14 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61935-0Published: 12 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 153
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Management, Ethnography