Guide to the Management Gurus

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Do you know what is meant by Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs'? Or what the 'psychological contract' is? Or who first advanced the theory of job satisfaction? Or how Japan turned its réputation for shoddy products into one of quality and reliability in four years? Or what managers actually do with their time, as opposed to what they think they do?
Management gurus - the individuáis behind those ideas and findings - have had an immense, if often subterranean influence on the development of commerce and industry, in particular on the way managers function and on the évolution of employer-employee relations, from the early days of 'control and command' to the theories of 'empowerment' now emerging through the challenges of managing change in organizations.
Understanding how these ideas evolved and how they have shaped management thinking is a key to unlocking an in-depth understanding of business itself. This book provides an easily accessible guide to the works of nearly three dozen... Tovább

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Do you know what is meant by Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs'? Or what the 'psychological contract' is? Or who first advanced the theory of job satisfaction? Or how Japan turned its réputation for shoddy products into one of quality and reliability in four years? Or what managers actually do with their time, as opposed to what they think they do?
Management gurus - the individuáis behind those ideas and findings - have had an immense, if often subterranean influence on the development of commerce and industry, in particular on the way managers function and on the évolution of employer-employee relations, from the early days of 'control and command' to the theories of 'empowerment' now emerging through the challenges of managing change in organizations.
Understanding how these ideas evolved and how they have shaped management thinking is a key to unlocking an in-depth understanding of business itself. This book provides an easily accessible guide to the works of nearly three dozen leading management gurus from the 1900s toi990s, with concise summaries of their contributions to management thought and pointers to their key books.
It will be indispensable both to students on business courses and to practising managers interested in enlarging their knowledge of their craft. The book reveáis how gurus have frequently built on - or sometimes demolished - earlier theories, including their own, and how many concepts, like decentralization in giant corporations, originated decades before they became standard practice around the globe.
Some of the gurus in this book, like Edward de Bono, became gurus through one 'big idea'; others, like Peter Drucker and Charles Handy, through a fountain of ideas and forecasts about the direction of business and society. Ail are worth exploring. This book will show you how and why. Vissza