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Zygmunt Bauman - Management in a Liquid Modern World - 9781509502219 - V9781509502219
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Management in a Liquid Modern World

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Description for Management in a Liquid Modern World Hardback. Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: JH; KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 362.

Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, but there are few areas in modern societies that have been untouched by it.

What is the meaning of management now almost omnipresent and all-powerful in our current bleak times, in our current state of 'interregnum' that is characterized by an increasing sense of insecurity ... Read more

These are some of the questions explored in this timely new book by Zygmunt Bauman, one of the greatest thinkers of our times, architect and Urban Studies professor Irena Bauman, and two organization and management scholars, Jerzy Kociatkiewicz and Monika Kostera.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509502219
SKU
V9781509502219
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Zygmunt Bauman
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (1925-2017) was Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. His many books have become international bestsellers and have been translated into more than thirty languages. IRENA BAUMAN is Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is a practicing architect and cofounded Bauman Lyons Architects in 1992 in Leeds, UK. ... Read more

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