Work, management, and the business of living / Moneim El-Meligi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

El-Meligi, A. Moneim, 1923-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the modern economic paradigm characterized by a multitude of business management theories aimed at maximizing profits, there is a danger of formalizing management techniques to the extent of dehumanizing individuals or reducing them to humanoids. This book deals with familiar concepts in the management literature, but always in light of the model of the human person. It sheds light on organizing processes in individuals, small groups, and organizations and other large social systems by covering empirical research on three central topics - modes of influence, intrapersonal communication, and

Contents:

History of ideas

You cannot not manage

First encounter with managers

Psychologist in business school!

From academia to Wall Street

Singapore adopts the seminar

Learning is a two-way process

The human person

Don't think, just look!

Model parameters

Synthesis

Practical implications

Membership: a historical process

Leader/manager controversy

Review of case studies

Leadership, fellowship & follower-ship

Leading or following as daily behavior

Central thesis : mechanisms of influence

Flashback : a journey with a donkey

Social structures

The human person as a universe

Dyadic structures

Triadic structures

Small group

Work, play & leisure

Semantic introduction

Work versus labor

Leisure

Aristotle's view

Energy management

Final conclusion

References

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-66910-1

9786613646033

981-279-069-1

OCLC:

794328425