This analysis of managerial life addresses such themes as: the informal as well as the formal aspects of managing and organizing; processes of socialization, learning, continuity and change; manifestations of power and control; and the significance of material and verbal symbolism.

`A most interesting collection of critical current thinking' - Journal of Managerial PsychologyThis book views management as a complex set of social and symbolic processes often characterized by considerable ambiguity and paradox. In particular, it develops the body of work concerned with building experienced-based, grounded description and understanding of the processes of management and managing.