1. Sidelined: employment relations in professional sports / Michael Barry, James Skinner and Terry Engelberg -- Part I the regulation of professional sports -- 2. The regulation of professional football at the European Union level. Towards supranational employment relations in the football...

A brief introduction to Total Quality Management (TQM) is presented. It is a holistic concept and must be implemented as such. However, there are four barriers to full implementation. These are short‐termism, organisational segmentalism, reluctant managers, and poor industrial relations. These...

Quality initiatives have become widespread in recent years. However, the diverse meanings attached to quality initiatives make it a seductive and slippery philosophy of management and an elusive topic of study. Many books champion the cause of quality management but few address its meaning or...

Management - the pursuit of objectives through the organization and co-ordination of people - has been and is a core feature, and function, of modern society. Some 'classic' forms of corporate and bureaucratic management may come to be seen as a prevalent form of organization and organizing in...

This handbook analyses and explores the evolution of management; the core functions and how they may have changed; its position in the culture of modern society; the institutions and ideologies that support it; and likely challenges and changes in the future.