Management: A Sociological Introduction

1. Into the Heart of Darkness: A Short Theoretical Journey.

2. The Black Ships: The Historical Development of British Management.

3. Mimetic Pyrophobes: What are Managers, What do Managers do, and Why do they do What they do?.

4. From Silent Monitors: The Long and Relatively Unhappy Life of Managing Appraisals.

5. Reengineering Utopia: Managing Radical Change.

6. The Alchemy of Leadership.

7. The Culture of Management and the Management of Culture.

8. Managing Gender Inequality through Technology.

9. Fatalism, Freewill and Control: An Index of Possibilities.

10. Reflections.

Bibliography.

Index.