To provide an understanding of the nature of management work, this text concentrates on the lives and identities of real life managers inside and outside the workplace. The authors explore the experiences of people managing a variety of workplaces from civil service departments to restaurants.

The Emergent Manager looks closely at the lives of managers in a range of settings and how they make sense of their pasts, presents and futures as managers and as people with identities outside the workplace. This book provides a new understanding of the nature of management work and of the way people make sense of their lives as managers across a range of workplaces from civil service departments and building societies to shops, restaurants and schools.