Management assertions and aversions
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Bibliographic Information
Management assertions and aversions
（Pergamon international library of science, technology, engineering and social studies）
Pergamon Press, 1985
1st ed
- : U.S
- : U.S. : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book highlights certain topics in the field of decision making, corporate planning, and organization theory, and continues the debate about crises in the study of management. In particular, the new modelling tools of operational research are afflicted with problems of validity and implementation, while much of the current research into organization behaviour and design does not seem relevant to problems encountered by managers in real life. The author takes a novel look at a number of the issues involved and points out the strengths and shortcomings of the approaches adopted in the literature.
Table of Contents
Aphorisms and assertions. ORMS and management - conflict and resolution. Dilemmas in the OR world. The role of management science. Pitfalls galore. Doctor, heal thyself. Power corrupts. Ackoff's fables. A challenge to planning. ZBB - promise or illusion? Control and utility. Lateral consistency? A question of size. Job specification - needs and limitations. The non-executive director. The Vroom-Yetton leadership model. Managerial stress. Paradigms, Gestalts and the obfuscation factor in organization theory. What is the oil congealer trying to say? On the playing fields of management. Evaluating management education. How not to measure excellence. Country risk appraisal. Enforced leisure. Index.
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