Complexity and the Experience of Managing in Public Sector Organizations (Complexity as the Experience of Organizing)

Synopsis

A fundamental problem of public sector governance relates to the very way of thinking it reflects; where organization is thought of as a ‘thing’, a system designed to deliver what its designers choose. This volume questions that way of thinking and takes a perspective in which organizations are complex responsive processes of relating between people. Bringing together the work of participants on the Doctor of Management program at Hertfordshire University, this book focuses on the move to marketization and managerialism, paying particular attention to human relationships and group dynamics. The contributors provide narrative accounts of their work addressing questions of management, pressures, accountability, responsiveness and traditional systems perspectives. In considering such questions in terms of their daily experience, they explore how the perspective of complex responsive processes assists them in making sense of experience and developing practice. Including an editors’ commentary which introduces and contextualizes these experiences as well as drawing out key themes for further research, this book will be of value to academics, students and practitioners looking for reflective accounts of real life experiences rather than further prescriptions of what organizational life ought to be.

Copyright:

2005

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781134210527

Related ISBNs:

9780203019757, 9780415367318, 9780415367318, 9780415367325, 9780415367325

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

05/07/20

Copyrighted By:

Ralph Stacey and Douglas Griffin

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Ralph Stacey

Edited by:

Douglas Griffin