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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779008303321

Autore

El-Meligi A. Moneim <1923->

Titolo

Work, management, and the business of living [[electronic resource] /] / Moneim El-Meligi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, 2012

ISBN

1-280-66910-1

9786613646033

981-279-069-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Disciplina

658

Soggetti

Management

Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

History of ideas -- You cannot not manage -- First encounter with managers -- Psychologist in business school! -- From academia to Wall Street -- Singapore adopts the seminar -- Learning is a two-way process -- The human person -- Don't think, just look! -- Model parameters -- Synthesis -- Practical implications -- Membership: a historical process -- Leader/manager controversy -- Review of case studies -- Leadership, fellowship & follower-ship -- Leading or following as daily behavior -- Central thesis : mechanisms of influence -- Flashback : a journey with a donkey -- Social structures -- The human person as a universe -- Dyadic structures -- Triadic structures -- Small group -- Work, play & leisure -- Semantic introduction -- Work versus labor -- Leisure -- Aristotle's view -- Energy management -- Final conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In the modern economic paradigm characterized by a multitude of business management theories aimed at maximizing profits, there is a danger of formalizing management techniques to the extent of dehumanizing individuals or reducing them to humanoids. This book deals with familiar concepts in the management literature, but always in light of the model of the human person. It sheds light on organizing processes in individuals, small groups, and organizations and other



large social systems by covering empirical research on three central topics - modes of influence, intrapersonal communication, and