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Is ‘downsizing’ a route to increased efficiency, or a failure of the sociological imagination? Include ‘middle managers’ in your answer.
Key Readings
Wright-Mills, C (1961) The Sociological Imagination. New York: Grove Press
Burke, R.J., and Nelson, D.L. (1997) ‘Downsizing and Restructuring: Lessons from the Firing Line for Revitalizing Organizations’, Leadership & Development Journal, 18: 325-34
Cascio, W.F., (1993) ‘Downsizing: What do we Know? What have we Learned?’, Academy of Management Executive, 7: 95-104
Hassard, J., et al (2009) Managing in the Modern Corporation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
McCann, L., Hassard, J., and Morris, J. (2008) ‘Normalized Intensity: The New Labour Process of Middle Management, Journal of Management Studies.
McCann, L., (2013) ‘Managing from the echo chamber: Employee dismay and leadership Detachment in the British banking and insurance crisis’, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 9, 4: 398-414
Osterman. P. (2008) The Truth about Middle Managers Harvard Business Press (chapter 4 available online)
Pfeffer, J., (1995/2005) ‘Producing Sustainable Competitive Advantage through the Effective Management of People’ Academy of Management Perspectives, 19: 95-106
Reed, G.E. (2004) ‘Toxic Leadership’, Military Review, July-August 2004
Further Readings
Cameron, K.S. et al, (1991) ‘Best Practices in White-Collar Downsizing: Managing Contradictions’, Academy of Management Executive, 5: 57-73
Dutton and Ashford (1993) ‘Selling issues to top management’, Academy of Management Review, 18, 3
Brech, Thomson, and Wilson (2011) Lyndall Urwick: Management Pioneer, Oxford University Press
Urwick, L. F., (1974) ‘V.A. Graicunas and the Span of Control’, Academy of Management Journal, 17, 2: 349-354
Dalton, M., (1959) Men Who Manage: Fusions of Feeling and Theory in Administration, New York: Wiley
Dasgupta, R., (2013) Re-Reading the Salaryman in Japan: Crafting Masculinities, Abingdon: Routledge
