Complexity and Organisations: Researching Practice (Complexity and Management)

Synopsis

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn’t something that managers can control and leaders cannot harness, then what does a complexity perspective offer?This fourth book in the complexity series describes how taking complexity seriously can inform approaches to understanding organisations. It focuses on the ways that managers and researchers can engage with their own histories to better understand their working lives, how they may be participating in maintaining the very processes they are trying to change and how research methods can shed light on politics of working together. The chapter authors work in a wide variety of sectors and draw on their experience to produce vibrant writing which will resonate with managers and leaders who want to explore how they might understand their working lives differently, and to students who are using first-person reflexive research methodologies.Drawn from contemporary research in a wide variety of organisations, this book makes a valuable contribution to manager-researchers wanting to think differently about their intractable and enduring everyday dilemmas.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040223130

Related ISBNs:

9781003410522, 9781040223086, 9781032531380, 9781032531397

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

11/29/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Kiran Chauhan and Chris Mowles individual chapters, the contributors

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kiran Chauhan

Edited by:

Chris Mowles