Download or read book Thinking about Management written by Ian Palmer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical text presents central management questions that managers and students need to work with and understand. Key debates in management theory are taken out of their academic setting and discussed in relation to management experience. Exercises, examples, illustrations and summaries bring the problems and dilemmas alive for the student. From people management to organizational culture; leadership to learning; institutional power to individual innovation; the multi-faceted territory of management is explored and opened up.