Beyond Management

Taking Charge at Work
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-30816-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Addleson, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The End of the Line Getting into Work Organizing: Getting the Beat 'Jeff's Journal: Project Work on the Inside' Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Organizing Knowledge-Work in Close-Up The Work of Organizing with Giant Hairballs and Wicked Problems Tools are the Empty Heart of Management or Why Strategic Initiatives Fail Practices that Break the Mould with Agility and Care In Search of Low-Control Organizing Practices: Community, Care, Cooperation, and Commitment Taking On the Work of Organizing Conversations for Aligning: Openness, Commitments, and Accountability Organizing Moves Handling Hierarchy and More Good Work Wanted

Über Autor(innen)

MARK ADDLESON is an Associate Professor of Management Economics at George Mason University School of Public Policy, Washington D.C., USA. Before joining George Mason University in 1994, Professor Addleson taught for more than 20 years in his native South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was head of the General Management program. From 1989 to 1994, Professor Addleson was a director of Econometrix, a firm of consultants with clients across all sectors of the economy. He has consulted with many companies and public and non-profit organizations both in the United States and South Africa. Professor Addleson publishes regularly in academic journals and has authored books, newspaper articles, and papers presented at local and overseas conferences. He has been awarded numerous research grants and the Wits Business School's award for teaching excellence.