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SAGE PUBLISHING Understanding Management Critically 2014 Edition by Dyer
In these times of global economic crisis, social unrest towards the powers that be, and a yearning for alternative systems and organization, it is now more relevant than ever for you to take a critical stance to your management studies in order to analyse, understand and question the world around you and the capitalist stronghold in which you live and work.This new thought-provoking text uses critical theory and revolutionary ideas to help you challenge the status quo and prevailing ideologies in management. It covers key issues, thinkers and topics in an accessible style to provide a broad and clear understanding of vital theory which is applied to the real world through international case studies and reflective questions and think points for you to carry into practice.A companion website provides additional learning materials for personal study and class activities https://study.sagepub.com/dyerThis text is essential reading for any undergraduate or postgraduate student studying critical management or any management course with a critical slant. Raising Critical Consciousness in Management StudiesInfluential Thinkers and the Critical DiscourseNeo-liberalism, Globalisation and the Global EconomyOrganisational Structures and the Idea of WorkPolitics, Power and Control within OrganisationsGender, Race and Class Diversities in the WorkplaceConsumer Culture, Commodities and ConsumptionSustainability and Ecological Responsibility under CapitalismStudying Leaders and Leadership CriticallyReflections on Self, Other and Organisations