Management in action
Peter Lawrence
(Senior lecturer, Dept. of Management Studies, Loughborough University)
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Abstract
Business and management undergraduates expect to join an administrative machine and become its systems monitors. The textbooks lead them to expect this. But it is not what management is really like, writes Peter Lawrence in Management in Action, a study of British and German production and general managers, just published. The book shows management work as messy and complicated, not systematic:
Citation
Lawrence, P. (1985), "Management in action", Education + Training, Vol. 27 No. 9, pp. 284-284. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017195
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1985, MCB UP Limited