Controversies in management -- What is management? A term in search of a meaning -- What is management? Exploitation, politics and magic -- The social sciences: Can they help managers? -- Principles of management: Valid or vacuous? -- Getting ahead in management: Meritocracy or myth? -- Gender in management: Must men manage? -- Organizational leadership: Does it make a difference? -- Managing all over the world: One way or many? -- The future of management: Business as unusual?
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Modern managers cope not only with a complex and ever changing world, but also with diverse ways of understanding and managing it. This second edition sets out to explore some of these puzzles and provides a guide to the different key theories and approaches to management that have developed over the years.