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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785664903321

Autore

Birkinshaw Julian M

Titolo

Reinventing management [[electronic resource] ] : smarter choices for getting work done / / Julian Birkinshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, Calif., : Jossey-Bass, 2010

ISBN

0-470-66231-X

1-282-93948-3

9786612939488

0-470-66090-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/012

Soggetti

Management

Organizational change

Strategic planning

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

Why management failed -- What's your management model? -- Coordinating activities: from bureaucracy to emergence -- Making decisions : from hierarchy to collective wisdom -- Setting objectives: from alignment to obliquity -- Motivating employees : from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation -- Four models of management -- The change agent's agenda -- The leader's agenda.

Sommario/riassunto

The recent economic crisis was not just caused by a failure of regulation or economic policy; it was a story of the failure of management in a fundamental sense-a deeply flawed approach to management that encouraged bankers to pursue opportunities without regard for their long-term consequences, and to put their own interests ahead of those of their employers and their shareholders. And looking more widely, there is a creeping disenchantment with management as a profession: surveys show that managers generate less respect than lawyers and bankers in the eyes of the general public, and