Transparency and other hot topics [[electronic resource] /] / guest editors: Tom McManus, Yair Holtzman, Harold Lazarus and Johan Anderberg

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450753003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2006
• ISBN: 1-280-73771-9; 9786610737710; 1-84663-211-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (126 p.)
• Collana: Journal of Management Development ; ; 25, no. 10
• Altri autori (Persone): McManusTom; HoltzmanYair; LazarusHarold; AnderbergJohan
• Soggetti: Industrial management; Management - Study and teaching; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; Guest editorial; Transparency guru: an interview with Tom McManus; Transparency: panacea or Pandora's box; Organization-stakeholder relationships: exploring trust and transparency; Creating transparency around the research and development tax credit; Globalization, organizational opaqueness and conspiracy; Healthcare transparency: opportunity or mirage; Transparency in the age of AIDS: the reality and mythology of a disease; Organic management of frameworks and systems, but not people; Transparency and there again: lessons learned at Digital; How personal can ethics get?Enabling transparent leadership: a small business manager's perspective; Authenticity and transparency in the advertising industry; Transparency, communication and mindfulness; Corporate information transparency; Awards for Excellence
• Sommario/riassunto: This e-book explores transparency as both an approach and an outcome in the management of organizations. Transparency is defined ; broadly as openness, candor, the free flow of information, and also as dialogue with stakeholders. Transparency is a method of regulation of business and government, a means of self-regulation promoted by some to ward off even more intrusive regulation, an information policy of organizations, a term of art in economics, trade, architecture, arms control, corruption, human communications, leadership, information technology, and more.