The Effective Manager: Perspectives and Illustrations

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5110-0
Verlag: Repro India Limited

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 816 g

Reihe: Published in association with The Open University

`The book will appeal to and be most appropriate for students new to the study of management, who wish to be introduced to what it is that the management theorist can offer the practitioner. In this respect this book works very well and I have no hesitation in recommending it for inclusion on the reading list of first-, or second-level management development programmes' - International Journal of Training and Development An ideal introduction to management and organizational behaviour, this Reader brings together a range of contributions on the art and science of management. The focus of the book is on the ideas and theories which a manager can use to become more effective. Six sections explore important aspects of the manager's job: management, leadership and conflict; motivation and stress at work; organizational culture; decision-making and teams; staff development; and diversity in organizations. In each section, the reader will find articles which reflect major ideas or debates within the area, including those that challenge traditional views and ways of doing things. Does money motivate? Are teams useful? Does organizational culture exist? What role does sexuality play in the workplace? These are some of the questions asked. Throughout, the book underlines the need for managers to take into account the different contexts of time and culture in which they act. The book is a course Reader for The Open University course The Effective Manager (B654).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Billsberry, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

There's Nothing so Practical as a Good Theory - Jon Billsberry
How Can Theory Help Managers Become More Effective?
PART ONE: MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP AND CONFLICT
Men and Women in Transition - Nigel Nicholson and Michael West
Chocolate Eggs and Chester Barnard - Iain Mangham
The Chinese Contract - Charles Handy
Can Leaders Change Their Styles? - Andrzej Huczynski and David Buchanan
How Can I Win if You Don't Lose? - Judith Knelman
Games Where the Winner Doesn't Take All
The [pound]5 Auction - Charles Handy
PART TWO: MOTIVATION AND STRESS AT WORK
Profit-Related Pay - Greg Clark
A Retrospective
Does Money Motivate? - Adrian Furnham
Job Features and Excessive Stress - Peter Warr
Prevention and Management of Work Stress - Lawrence R Murphy
Stressed? - Kevin Daniels
PART THREE: ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND THE CHANGING NATURE OF ORGANIZATIONAL ENTRY
Corporate Tribes - Terrence Deal and Allen Kennedy
Identifying the Cultures
Gender Cultures - Su Maddock and Di Parkin
Women's Choices and Strategies at Work
Managing Organizational Culture - Emmanuel Ogbonna
Fantasy or Reality?
Phases and Levels of Organizational Change - Nicholas S Rashford and David Coghlan
The Short List, or Principles of Selection - C Northcote Parkinson
Hiring for the Organization, Not the Job - David E Bowen, Gerald E Ledford Jr and Barry R Nathan
When Does the Recruitment and Selection Process End? The Organizational Entry Cycle and a Horticultural Metaphor - Jon Billsberry
PART FOUR: DECISION MAKING AND TEAMS
Satisficing - Irving L Janis and Leon Mann
Limited Rationality - James March
Groupthink - Irving L Janis
Reaping the Benefits of Teamwork - Adrian Furnham
Team Roles and a Self-Perception Inventory - R Meredith Belbin
Teams - Peter Herriot and Carole Pemberton
Old Myths and a New Model
The Trouble with Teams - The Economist
PART FIVE: DEVELOPING STAFF
The Peter Principle - Laurence J Peter and Raymond Hull
How Managers Can Become Developers - Alan Mumford
Managing Individual Behaviour - Stephen L Fink
Bringing Out the Best in People
Special Needs, Different Solutions - Alan Mumford
Appraisal - Clive Fletcher
An Idea Whose Time Has Gone?
Managing Individual Behavior - Stephen L Fink
Bringing Out the Best in People
PART SIX: DIVERSITY IN ORGANIZATIONS
The Cultural Relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories - Geert Hofstede
Communicating across Cultural Barriers - Nancy Adler
Actions Speak Louder than Words - Rosemary Thomson
Diversity - Rajvinder Kandola and Johanna Fullerton
More than Just an Empty Slogan
Sex - David Sims, Stephen Fineman and Yiannis Gabriel
Professional and Openly Gay - David Shallenberger
A Narrative Study of the Experience
Taking Action on Harassment - Kerry Hawkins
PART SEVEN: POSTSCRIPT
A New Deal for Middle Managers - Peter Herriot and Carole Pemberton

Über Autor(innen)

Billsberry, Jon
Jon Billsberry is a Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour and a member of the Centre for Human Resource and Change Management at the Open University Business School.