Managing in Changing Times: A Guide for the Perplexed Manager - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 8132102339 ISBN 13: 9788132102335

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

This book brings together distinguished writers from diverse fields and their specialised perspectives on new ideas and the challenges they pose to the hegemony of neo-classical scientific management. It explores various possibilities for the future development of the understanding of management and organisation in the context of new economic conditions taking shape in both the East and the West. The focus on these makes this volume topical. It provides today’s managers with alternatives to conventional approaches to management that are now facing a credibility crunch.

Managing in Changing Times: A Guide for the Perplexed Manager shows the manager that there are no easy, quick-fix, off the shelf solutions to complex problems. Solutions require thinking and action with multiple perspectives and require considerable effort to master. This imparts the book a global appeal as it speaks to every manager. The initial chapters present the ideas of Schumacher and Capra which, the author shows, could be used as catalysts to evolve a post-scientific global management era.

The book will be a handy reference material for students of management, managers and management pundits.

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Recensione

The book aims to provide a way out to manage perplexity ridden business world full of uncertainties and complexities while it appears to be overly critical of “neo-classical” scientific management and suggests new management paradigms – based on combinations of management styles of East and West...It is very nicely produced, scholarly volume and must be welcomed as an addition base of the management theory literature.

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Contenuti

Preface - Sid Lowe
PART ONE: PERPLEXITY, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION THEORY
Schumacher's Hierarchy - Sid Lowe
Capra's Kite - Sid Lowe
Kathryn Pavlovich and Robert Chia
Perplexity, Process and Practice
Perplexity; Preparing for the Happenings of Change - John Shotter
Perplexity, Ecology and Technology - John Richard Ennals
Perplexity and Ethics - Ian Steers
Perplexing images: Relational identities in cultural tempospaces - Slawomir Jan Magala
Perplexity and Strategy: Moving Towards an Enrolment Advantage Paradigm - Jon Gander
PART TWO: PERPLEXITIES IN SELECTIVE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS
Perplexity and Indigenous Leadership - Karl-Erik Sveiby
Perplexity, Management and Business in India - Balakrishnan Muniapan
Perplexity in South-East Asia: De-perplexing the Expat - Astrid Kainzbauer
Perplexity and Oikomorphosis; Managing Transformation - Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer
Epilogue - Sid Lowe
Index

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8132102339
• ISBN 13: 9788132102335
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 412
• Redattore: Lowe Sid
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile