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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956953903321

Autore

Birkinshaw Julian M

Titolo

Reinventing management : smarter choices for getting work done / / Julian Birkinshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, 2012

ISBN

9786613695154

9781280784767

1280784768

9781118389706

1118389700

9781118389676

1118389670

Edizione

[Rev. and updated ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/012

658.4012

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 and communicating 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 -- Broadening the debate on reinventing management.

Sommario/riassunto

The 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.     The revised edition of this



best-selling book shows convincingly that many of today's major economic problems in the west can be traced to a failure of management.  In this updated edition the auth