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Tables of Contents for Managerial Work
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
vii
Series Preface
ix
Introduction
xi
PART I FIELD STUDY REPORTS
The Directions of Activity and Communication in a Departmental Executive Group
3
26
Tom Burns
Differential Decisions in the Management of an Industrial Plant
29
12
Norman H. Martin
Management in Action
41
16
Tom Burns
The Work Activities of ``Middle'' Managers-An Exploratory Study
57
20
J.H. Horne
Tom Lupton
Roles in a Manufacturing Organization
77
22
D.L. Marples
Managerial Work: Analysis from Observation
99
14
Henry Mintzberg
Predictors of Variation in Managerial Roles
113
24
John Child
Tony Ellis
What Effective General Managers Really Do
137
12
John P. Kotter
Managerial Behavior, Uncertainty and Hierarchy: A Prelude to a Synthesis
149
16
Jane Hannaway
What Do Successful Managers Really Do?
165
18
Fred Luthans
Stuart A. Rosenkrantz
Harry W. Hennessey
PART II METHODOLOGY, CONCEPTS AND CRITIQUES
The Use of Diaries to Study Managers
183
8
Rosemary Stewart
Studies of Managers - A Fresh Start?
191
18
D.L. Marples
Structured Observation as a Method to Study Managerial Work
209
18
Henry Mintzberg
How Managers Plan - The Analysis of Managers' Activities'
227
8
Neil Snyder
William F. Glueck
A Model for Understanding Managerial Jobs and Behavior
235
8
Rosemary Stewart
Beyond Structured Observation: Methodological Issues and New Directions
243
20
Mark J. Martinko
William L. Gardner
What Do Managers Do? A Critical Review of the Evidence
263
28
Colin P. Hales
Are the Classical Management Functions Useful in Describing Managerial Work?
291
14
Stephen J. Carroll
Dennis J. Gillen
Studying Managerial Work: A Critique and a Proposal
305
22
Hugh Willmott
Studies of Managerial Jobs and Behaviour: The Ways Forward
327
10
Rosemary Stewart
On the Nature of Managerial Tasks and Skills: Their Distingushing Characteristics and Organization
337
16
Richard Whitley
Managerial Work: Forty Years Later
353
24
Henry Mintzberg
Enactment in Managerial Jobs: A Role Analysis
377
22
Nanette Fondas
Rosemary Stewart
Name Index
399