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John Hendry, a leading management scholar, looks at the nature and practice of management in this Very Short Introduction. Tracing the development of management over the last century, he looks not only at what managers do, but also provides an insight to modern management theory. He considers the influences of national and organizational culture, the relationship between power and domination, managing in different cultures, approaches to management, and at the accountability of managers and morality. This is an ideal introduction for anyone interested in, or studying, business and management.

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John Hendry is a writer, teacher, and academic. He has spent much of his career working in and managing business schools and writing about the practice of management and business and financial ethics, but has also had a parallel life as a historian and philosopher of science and a historian of contemporary Britain. His most recent books focus on the art (and joys) of managing, on the ethical problems besetting the financial sector, and on the power and limitations of reason. John is a Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge, and an emeritus professor at Henley Business School.

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