This book presents a number of strategic management concepts and the circumstances in which they apply in a format and language understandable to both business and non-business readers. The authors - academics and military men - cite examples throughout military history, including quotes, stories, and diagrams, that teach important lessons for ......
6,000 Team Members and Leaders Tell What it Takes to Succeed
`[A] tour de force on what makes teams successful. Building on sound theory and relying on extensive research, they offer specific, practical tools that will deliver team value. Team members, business leaders, and organization consultants should not only read, but use this work' - Professor Ulrich, University of Michigan `This book makes ......
"Critical Management Studies" brings an integrated critical approach to the study of management and organizations. The contributors provide a critically oriented overview of the entire area of management studies: organization theory, organizational behaviour, marketing, accounting, information systems and operational research. They offer a state-of-the-art report on those areas which are currently most influenced by critical theory, and discuss its relevance for practitioners. The book should appeal to anyone interested in management studies from a critical perspective, and should be of particular interest to management students - including those at PhD and MBA level.
Trying to do good deeds does not guarantee that a nonprofit organization can succeed. The organization must do good deeds well. This book offers a blueprint for nonprofit success, adopting a strategic perspective that assumes vision, mission, strategy, and execution as the pillars upon which success is built.
Trying to do good deeds does not guarantee that a nonprofit organization can succeed. The organization must do good deeds well. This book offers a blueprint for nonprofit success, adopting a strategic perspective that assumes vision, mission, strategy, and execution as the pillars upon which success is built.
Drawing on advances in the social sciences, this book shows how rigorous, theory-based empirical research can help improve the management of public policies and programs - and how better governance can lead to better performance. It shows how more sophisticated research in public management can help improve government performance.
Discusses the future of the management consultant industry, particularly in the next two decades, addressing such issues as growth, the relationship between consultants and clients, and key threats and opportunities. Rather than focus on one prediction, the author presents a variety of views from consultants, clients, suppliers and industry ......
In this volume, research on the skills, knowledge, abilities and other characteristics that define effectiveness of senior executives is examined. This integrated framework can be used to develop ways of assessing, selecting, training, developing and coaching executives.
Operational Research in Industry brings together the experience and expertise of an international group of consultants, researchers, and academics. The book gives practical examples of cross-industry management and covers many different industrial sectors. The selected applications particularly highlight areas where the global market and ......
