Download or read book Great Writers on Organizations written by Derek S. Pugh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Writers on Organizations presents succinctly each of the contributions made by 80 of the most prominent management thinkers to the understanding of organizational behaviour and managerial thinking. Among those included are early theorists such as Henri Fayol, Frederick W. Taylor and Max Weber, classical writers such as Alfred D. Chandler, Peter Drucker and Frederick Herzberg, through to modern thinkers such as Oliver Williamson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Charles Handy. New writers included in the Third Omnibus Edition are: Lex Donaldson, Stewart Clegg, Richard Whitley, Michel Foucault and Kathleen Eisenhardt. The volume is an indispensable resource for academics, students and managers on what the great writers have to say about the key managerial tasks of how to organize and motivate.
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a best-seller, this eagerly awaited Sixth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Authors Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer?'s contribution to the field'providing coverage of all the classic and cutting edge theories in management today. New to the Sixth Edition: ? Discusses the work of new writers and brings the work of previous writers up-to-date: Takes into account the changing organizational issues and new work making an impact in the field.Incorporates new material on leading experts: This updated edition includes the presentation of six additional writers?Stewart Clegg, Lex Donaldson, Peter Drucker, Kathleen Eisenhardt, Michel Foucault, and Richard Whitley.Illuminates the ideas of a wide range of key organizational thinkers: The authors include summaries of major contributions to the field, past and present, to help readers understand and classify different types of organizations. Intended Audience: ? This handy resource can be used by both students and professionals in Management, Organization Studies, Industrial Psychology, Public Administration, Social Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, and Communication.Meet author Derek Pugh! Visit his website at www.derekpugh.com'or email him at'[email protected]?
Download or read book Great Writers on Organizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by Dartmouth Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book describes the contributions that many prominent management thinkers have made to the study of organizations and how they are managed. This omnibus edition of earlier successful books covers a wide range of writers across the whole of the Twentieth Century whose writings have had a great impact on organizational thinking and managerial behaviour." "Great early writers such as Henri Fayol, Frederick W. Taylor, and Max Weber are considered: as are the classical writings of Alfred D. Chandler, Peter F. Drucker and Frederick Herzberg among many others. Modern writers with great impact such as Oliver E. Williamson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman are discussed." "The volume is an indispensable introduction for the busy manager to what the great writers have to say on the key managerial subjects of how to organize and motivate."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Great Writers on Organizations written by Derek S Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: A collection of the thoughts of many great writers on organizations. These writers are from a variety of different backgrounds. Some draw upon their expertise as practising managers, some on their knowledge of rational and local government administration, and some on the findings of their research work. All have attempted to draw together information and distil theories about how organizations function and how they should be managed. The volume seeks to provide a general overview of the field, and does not provide critical analysis of the views provided.
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by D. S. Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Writers on Organizations written by Derek S. Pugh and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000: A collection of the thoughts of many great writers on organizations. These writers are from a variety of different backgrounds. Some draw upon their expertise as practising managers, some on their knowledge of rational and local government administration, and some on the findings of their research work. All have attempted to draw together information and distil theories about how organizations function and how they should be managed. The volume seeks to provide a general overview of the field, and does not provide critical analysis of the views provided.
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by Derek S Pugh and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long a best-seller, this eagerly-awaited Fifth Edition offers an illuminating overview of the field of organization studies through the views of leading writers whose ideas are presently the subject of much interest and debate. Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson do a masterful job of capturing the essence of each writer's contribution to the field-providing coverage of all the cutting edge theories in management today. The clear explanation of complex ideas and the breadth of coverage make this book a valuable resource to a wide audience. The book is completely updated, including the discussion of eight new writers: Charles Handy, Christopher Bartlett, Sumantra Ghoshal, Paul J. DiMaggio, Walter Powell, Andrew Pettigrew, Peter Senge, and Gareth Morgan. Writers on Organizations is an invaluable volume that will be useful for students and professional in many areas including management, organization studies, industrial psychology, public administration, social psychology, sociology, political science, and communication.
Download or read book Writers on Organiizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly personal work, Boulding traces his lifelong search for human betterment. Believing that human betterment required certain economic changes, he studied economics as an undergraduate at Oxford. A careful examination of the American labour movement, however, convinced him that 'economics alone could not solve the problems of human betterment.' Boulding's later involvement in the study of conflict resolution and the analysis of world culture eventually led him to evolutionary theory, which has occupied much of his time and energy since the late 1960s.
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods of Management written by Charles B. Handy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would the world of business be like if it were run by the Greek gods of yore? Would Apollo be the right man at the helm of Acme Widget? What sweeping changes would Athena make if she controlled an ad agency? While this might merely seem like an entertaining concept, it also happens to be an extremely valuable framework for understanding management styles and the corporate cultures associated with them. In The Gods of Management, best-selling author Charles Handy uses four Greek gods to illustrate for managers the basic approaches they can use in their own businesses. When power radiates throughout the company from a top boss, that would be an example of a Zeus or "club" organization, one that investment banks and brokerage firms often adopt for their corporate climates. An Apollo "role" culture, on the other hand, results in a stable bureaucracy, such as a life insurance company or a firm with a long history of success with a single product. The Athena "task" environment emphasizes talent, youth, and team problem-solving, as we'd find in ad agencies and consultancies. And lastly, a Dionysius "existential" design exists to let individuals achieve their purposes, as in a university or group medical practice. In this thought-provoking volume, Charles Handy shows managers how to be aware of the cultural choices they can make to create a more productive and satisfying workplace.
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by D. S. Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writers on Organizations written by Derek Salman Pugh and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good to Great written by Jim Collins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the verybeginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness? The Study For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and convert long-term mediocrity or worse into long-term superiority? And if so, what are the universal distinguishing characteristics that cause a company to go from good to great? The Standards Using tough benchmarks, Collins and his research team identified a set of elite companies that made the leap to great results and sustained those results for at least fifteen years. How great? After the leap, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that beat the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, better than twice the results delivered by a composite index of the world's greatest companies, including Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck. The Comparisons The research team contrasted the good-to-great companies with a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to make the leap from good to great. What was different? Why did one set of companies become truly great performers while the other set remained only good? Over five years, the team analyzed the histories of all twenty-eight companies in the study. After sifting through mountains of data and thousands of pages of interviews, Collins and his crew discovered the key determinants of greatness -- why some companies make the leap and others don't. The Findings The findings of the Good to Great study will surprise many readers and shed light on virtually every area of management strategy and practice. The findings include: Level 5 Leaders: The research team was shocked to discover the type of leadership required to achieve greatness. The Hedgehog Concept (Simplicity within the Three Circles): To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. A Culture of Discipline: When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you get the magical alchemy of great results. Technology Accelerators: Good-to-great companies think differently about the role of technology. The Flywheel and the Doom Loop: Those who launch radical change programs and wrenching restructurings will almost certainly fail to make the leap. “Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,” comments Jim Collins, "fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.” Perhaps, but who can afford to ignore these findings?
Download or read book Great by Choice written by Jim Collins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns withanother groundbreaking work, this time to ask: why do some companies thrive inuncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research,buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins andhis colleague Morten Hansen enumerate the principles for building a truly greatenterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous and fast-moving times. This book isclassic Collins: contrarian, data-driven and uplifting.
Download or read book Designing Matrix Organizations that Actually Work written by Jay R. Galbraith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organization structures do not fail, says Jay Galbraith, but management fails at implementing them correctly. This is why, he explains, the idea that the matrix does not work still exists today, even among people who should know better. But the matrix has become a necessary form of organization in today's business environment. Companies now know that if they have multiple product lines, do business in multiple countries, and serve many customer segments through a variety of channels, there is no way they can avoid some kind of a matrix structure and the question most are asking is "How do we learn how to operate the matrix effectively?" In Designing Matrix Organizations That Actually Work, Galbraith answers this and other questions as he shows how to make a matrix work effectively.
