Managing Today and Tomorrow - Hardcover

Management policies can be varied according to the job concerned or the task in hand. This book looks at the theory and practice of management in an attempt to assist managers understand the basics of management as well as how management is changing and how that affects working practices as well as individual careers. The author argues that managers need to be more mobile than they used to be, so that they also have a greater need to understand where, how and why management practices differ. "Management Today and Tomorrow" is based on three main sources. First what social research has discovered about management in practice that is relevant to managers. The approach adopted, but not the language, is that of a social scientist. Second accounts of the changes that companies are making. Third the experience of the managers, from a wide variety of public and private organizations, whom the author has interviewed for many different research projects. Their views are used to provide some of the answers.