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

• Autore: Birkinshaw Julian M
• Pubblicazione: San Francisco, Calif., : Jossey-Bass, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/012
• Soggetto topico: Management; Organizational change; Strategic planning
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reinventing management
• ISBN: 0-470-66231-X; 1-282-93948-3; 9786612939488; 0-470-66090-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785664903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II