“A central argument of In Search of Management is that it is not helpful to think of ‘management’ as a special area of knowledge and practice whIch uses skills and knowledge which are essentially different from the types of skill and knowledge that people use elsewhere in social life. We might say that a skilled manager in a work organisation, once one goes beyond specific organisational or technical knowledge, is a human being generally skilled at influencing events and people, thinking economically, acting with political astuteness , and adept at building relationships of trust and shared obligation with all of those they deal with. To understand this, however, means setting our appreciation of what those who are employed as ‘managers’ in the broader context of how human beings generally have culturally ‘evolved’ and have continually needed to manage their whole lives and identities.” - Watson, T.J., 2001. In Search of Management, Cengage Learning EMEA., p. xvi.
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