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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birkinshaw, Julian M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Organizational change.

Strategic planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and updated ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613695154

9781280784767

1280784768

9781118389706

1118389700

9781118389676

1118389670

OCLC:

793166846