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Using original data, Managers in the Making presents a thorough analysis of the processes by which managers are made in Britain and Japan. It provides a detailed comparative study of the careers, training, developmental experience, and job demands of managers in eight named companies, matching a British firm with a Japanese counterpart. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this text offers an understanding of these processes within organization, sectoral, and national contexts. Managers' perceptions, reactions, and concerns are recorded and analyzed throughout. Managers in the Making is essential reading for students of management, organization studies, industrial relations, and human resource management.
Introduction: Managers and Their Making
Introduction: Managers and Their Making
If they signal anything, the mountains of books on the subject of managers and management would seem to suggest that managers and management are deemed rather significant in the struggle for corporate and indeed national success. Guidance about the way in which managers should behave in order to secure this success constitutes the largest proportion of these books. Such books take a prescriptive approach: that is, they educe ‘lessons’, offer checklists, outline procedures and elaborate models. In the mid 1990s, running parallel with the outpouring of optimistic and upbeat material on ‘the learning organization’ a more sombre tone was struck. Concern has been expressed about downsizing, managerial redundancy and even the ‘end of careers’. Managers have ...
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