Managing today and tomorrow
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Managing today and tomorrow
Macmillan Academic and Professional, 1991
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Management policies can be varied according to the job concerned or the task in hand. This book looks at the theory and practice of management in an attempt to assist managers understand the basics of management as well as how management is changing and how that affects working practices as well as individual careers. The author argues that managers need to be more mobile than they used to be, so that they also have a greater need to understand where, how and why management practices differ. "Management Today and Tomorrow" is based on three main sources. First what social research has discovered about management in practice that is relevant to managers. The approach adopted, but not the language, is that of a social scientist. Second accounts of the changes that companies are making. Third the experience of the managers, from a wide variety of public and private organizations, whom the author has interviewed for many different research projects. Their views are used to provide some of the answers.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Managing and managing the job: what is a managerial job?
- studies of managerial work
- changes over time - career transitions, the same job over time, what managing does to you
- the effective manager - thinking strategically. Part 2 Working in an organization: common characteristics of organizations - collective achievement of goals, complexity, structure, policies and procedures, technology, people, the organization's environment, culture
- different forms of organizations
- different views of organizations
- successful organizations. Part 3 Managing other people: creating the right conditions - what people want from work, obtaining commitment
- what does influencing involve? - the analytical approach, leadership
- not just individuals - groups, organizational politics. Part 4 Differences in managerial jobs: how management jobs differ - contextual differences, individual or job?
- reducing the mismatches
- implications. Part 5 Differences in stakeholders: types of stakeholders - providers of finance, employees, volunteers, clients and customers, members, the community, comparing stakeholders
- who controls the managers?. Part 6 National differences: why be interested?
- what social research has shown - comparing management practices, how values and attitudes differ
- implications - organizational implications, learning from Japan, individual implications
- how different.
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