Building Smart Teams is an essential guide to creating a smart team fast. Based on research results from close to 2,000 individuals organized in more than 250 teams, Building Smart Teams identifies the three critical skill sets that teams need and shows how to transfer these skills to a group. The authors' research and experience shows that, by ......
The ethical and legal scandals at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and many other businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia have shaken people's confidence in business. Corporate Integrity and Accountability seeks to address questions of corporate integrity as they arise for financial reporting, executive compensation, globalization, and business ......
Planning Focus Groups is part of the six-vol ume Focus Group Kit, which offers the information needed to conduct a state-of-the-art focus group, from the initial pla nning stages through to analysing and reporting the data. '
A pragmatic approach to business ethics is argued for in this volume, which demonstrates the usefulness of the approach by applying it to a variety of issues. These issues are broad and far-reaching and include the relations between rational and moral/ethical decision-making, the limits of loyalty to employers, the impact of trust on business and the role of commercial public opinion polling during elections. The author also covers advertising, tobacco promotion, manufacture and marketing of armaments, concentration and taxation of wealth, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"Public Sector Management" provides a broad ranging overview of the theory and practice of public service management. Drawing together a number of key contributions to the field, it: outlines the social, political and economic contexts in which management has emerged as a crucial issue in the public sector of industrial nations; introduces the major theories, issues and concepts involved in understanding public sector management; analyzes some of the key values, which underpin discussions of the public domain; and examines some of the main challenges in terms of particular strategies, techniques and competencies, which have been proposed for the better management of public services.
Management Knowledge from the 19th to 21st Centuries
This text demonstrates that American management ideas - still exported around the world as "universal verities" - are culturally specific to an historical United States, are inappropriate now and will be even more so in the 21st century. Amongst the topics considered: the carryover of 19th century pre-management notions into 20th century management; the emergence of industrial organization and big business; the evolving construct of the 'employee' throughout the 20th century; current management topics such as leadership, motivation, power, productivity, efficiency, work and the family; current management ideas such as "Total Quality Management" and "Reengineering". The critical history of US management thinking and discourse is concerned not only with the past and its influence, but also provides pointers to management in the 21st century.
This book presents novel theoretical ideas and empirical findings where the fields of strategizing and organizing meet. At this boundary lie many of the most crucial theoretical and practical issues for management and managing. Innovative Forms of Organizing, the eagerly awaited sequel to The Innovating Organization (SAGE, 2000), draws upon ......
Drawing upon a range of influential contemporary movements in the social sciences, primarily upon critical traditions, such as the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, this text provides a wide ranging analysis of management and its various specialisms. Critical Management offers critical understandings of key areas of management theory and ......
"This book would be a wonderful guide for someone new to the profession. The practical strategies and ideas will truly help that first year principal." -Rick Doss, Principal Brownsburg Junior High School, Indianapolis, IN "The examples and suggested activities are great with lots of simple suggestions that are real and practical-very effective!" ......
