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Management and Organisation: A Critical Text
Highly regarded in its first edition, this text was an instant hit. Designed to provide a more critical perspective on the standard diet of prescriptive organizational behavior texts, this text is ideal for advanced undergraduate students who want to challenge the preconceptions of the subject area.
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768 pages, Paperback
First published April 3, 2004
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April 12, 2016
A had the joy of reading this book for one of my subjects at uni. For starters it is the first textbook in my course that doesn't come as an ebook. This means that in addition to the fact that I cant take it anywhere since it is 2 inches thick, the company actually misses out on money from me since I bought it second hand and intend to sell it after I am finished.
While we are on the subject of aesthetics, in some places the text is written on a green background which is virtually impossible to read. Who designed this? And no computer screen means no zoom so I struggled to read this to start with.
Now lets get to the content. Each chapter is written by a different set of authors so it is a referencing nightmare. But here is the real problem. The book is a clutter of ideas with excessive detail. It is very difficult to read. Here is a good example: "Such culture management can be seen as a key control technology and, when arrayed next to consideration of the panopticon, it can be seen that what is being attempted here is control of the basis upon which the calculating selves of employees will do the calculation of their interests." WTF? Aside from being an extremely tedious run-on sentence it will take the reader several attempts to understand what point the author is trying to make. Look at me, I can string together lots of words and make myself look more intelligent that you. If you want to show intellectual superiority, perhaps you should try by having some useful content.
This book is targeted at academics in their ivory towers who love lots of detail and get marks on column inches. The ideas are all over the place and at no point are the topic headings relevant or clear on what you are trying to read.
And then the content of the book is offensive to some degree. Calling modern methodologies fads only serves to prove the point that most of the academics writing these books do so without any real life work experience. Since their existence at a university depends on the number of publications they produce they are under pressure to pump them out even if they are completely devoid of content. Sure, the referencing is all done perfectly but does the content amount to anything or is it even true?
I am no more intelligent or knowledgable having read this book than when I first started.Ot is entirely possible I have lost brain cells simply reading it, not to mentions the double scotches I have had in order to recover from the ordeal.
While we are on the subject of aesthetics, in some places the text is written on a green background which is virtually impossible to read. Who designed this? And no computer screen means no zoom so I struggled to read this to start with.
Now lets get to the content. Each chapter is written by a different set of authors so it is a referencing nightmare. But here is the real problem. The book is a clutter of ideas with excessive detail. It is very difficult to read. Here is a good example: "Such culture management can be seen as a key control technology and, when arrayed next to consideration of the panopticon, it can be seen that what is being attempted here is control of the basis upon which the calculating selves of employees will do the calculation of their interests." WTF? Aside from being an extremely tedious run-on sentence it will take the reader several attempts to understand what point the author is trying to make. Look at me, I can string together lots of words and make myself look more intelligent that you. If you want to show intellectual superiority, perhaps you should try by having some useful content.
This book is targeted at academics in their ivory towers who love lots of detail and get marks on column inches. The ideas are all over the place and at no point are the topic headings relevant or clear on what you are trying to read.
And then the content of the book is offensive to some degree. Calling modern methodologies fads only serves to prove the point that most of the academics writing these books do so without any real life work experience. Since their existence at a university depends on the number of publications they produce they are under pressure to pump them out even if they are completely devoid of content. Sure, the referencing is all done perfectly but does the content amount to anything or is it even true?
I am no more intelligent or knowledgable having read this book than when I first started.Ot is entirely possible I have lost brain cells simply reading it, not to mentions the double scotches I have had in order to recover from the ordeal.
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