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What is Happening to Middle Management?
Author(s) -
Dopson Sue,
Stewart Rosemary
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8551.1990.tb00151.x
Subject(s) - happening , middle management , pessimism , work (physics) , middle level , diversity (politics) , subject (documents) , public relations , business , sociology , political science , computer science , history , epistemology , law , performance art , art history , mechanical engineering , philosophy , library science , engineering
SUMMARY For many years middle managers’ work, career and future role have been the subject of gloomy descriptions, assertions and predictions. These are described and compared with studies, including our own, that give a more optimistic picture of what is happening to middle management. We also cite survey information about numbers, salaries and job mobility of UK managers, including middle managers. We argue that before generalizations, either optimistic or pessimistic, can justifiably be made, attention needs to be paid to the complexity of changes affecting middle managers’ jobs, to the diversity of organizations in which middle management work and the complexity of individual reactions to these changes.