Management decision, incorporating the journal of management history. Vol. 43, No. 10, Management history: absorbing the past to understand the present / Guest editor David Lamond.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lamond, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Industrial management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The purpose of this e-book is to identify and chronicle the ways in which contributions by early writers in management have been (or at least could have been) absorbed into current understanding and can inform the future development of management ideas - the issue then, is about good theory and is, therefore, most practical.

Contents:

CONTENTS; EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD; On the value of management history; Speaking about management education; The eighteenth century antecedents of bureaucracy, the Cameralists; Timeless advice: Daniel Defoe and small business management; British management theory and practice: the impact of Fayol; Fads, stereotypes and management gurus: Fayol and Follett today; Mary van Kleeck, Taylorism and the control of management knowledge; Maslow: man interrupted: reading management theory in context; Barnard on conflicts of responsibility

Contextual implications for transformational and servant leadershipStrategy in the Battle of Britain and strategic management theory; Note from the publisher

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-50987-2

9786610509874

1-84544-873-1

OCLC:

62704422