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 (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612939488

9780470662311

047066231X

9781282939486

1282939483

9780470660904

0470660902

OCLC:

700687397