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Rethinking Management: Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences
Chris Mowles
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Description for Rethinking Management: Radical Insights from the Complexity Sciences
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; KJC; KJMB; KJMV2; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 246 x 174. Weight in Grams: 535.
What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply 'best practice', or to take up 'evidence-based management' and what kind of thinking does this imply? In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that many management courses still largely assume a linear and predictable world, when experience tells us that the opposite is the case. He questions some of the more orthodox conceptual assumptions that underpin much management education and instead, encourages leaders and managers to take their everyday experience of working with others ... Read more
What do business school graduates learn, and how helpful is it for managing in the everyday, messy reality of organisations? What does it mean to apply 'best practice', or to take up 'evidence-based management' and what kind of thinking does this imply? In Rethinking Management, Chris Mowles argues that many management courses still largely assume a linear and predictable world, when experience tells us that the opposite is the case. He questions some of the more orthodox conceptual assumptions that underpin much management education and instead, encourages leaders and managers to take their everyday experience of working with others ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138245563
SKU
V9781138245563
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99-1
About Chris Mowles
Chris Mowles is Professor of Complexity and Management, Director of the Doctor of Management Programme, and member of the Complexity Research Group at the University of Hertfordshire. The programme takes as students senior management professionals and consultants and encourages them to take their practice as the focus of their doctoral research, and to locate their enquiry in broader traditions of ... Read more
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