Management Gurus And Management Fashions

Author : Brad Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134534833
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Gurus and Management Fashions written by Brad Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, ‘gurus’, have promoted a number of performance improvement programs and management fashions which have greatly influenced both the everyday conduct of organizational life and the preoccupations of academic researchers. This book provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion phenomenon, building on the important theoretical progress that has recently been made by a small, but growing band of management researchers. Fantasy theme analysis, a dramatically-based method of rhetorical criticism, is conducted to critique three of the most important management fashions to have emerged during the 1990s: * the re-engineering movement promoted by Michael Hammer and James Champy * the effectiveness movement led by Stephen Covey * the learning organization movement inspired by Peter Senge and his colleagues. In addition to its rhetorical and empirical contributions, this book stimulates a much-needed critical dialogue between practitioners and academics on the sources of the underlying appeal of management gurus and management fashions, and their effect upon the quality of management and organizational learning.

Author : Brad Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203780237
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Gurus and Management Fashions written by Brad Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulates a much-needed critical dialogue between practioners and academics about the sources of the appeal of management gurus and fashions, and their effect on the quality of management.

Author : Brad Jackson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415249461
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Gurus and Management Fashions written by Brad Jackson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rhetorical critique of the management guru and management fashion phenomenon, and stimulates a much-needed critical dialogue between practitioners and academics.

Author : Andrzej Huczynski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415390591
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Gurus written by Andrzej Huczynski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of the first edition, Huczynski identifies the essential ingredients of popular management ideas and brings his analysis of gurus into the twenty-first century.

Author : Andrzej Huczynski
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135655111
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Gurus, Revised Edition written by Andrzej Huczynski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management gurus have existed for as long as the leaders of large, complex organizations have had intractable problems to solve. This seminal text asks key questions such as: What is the secret of the success of management gurus and how can it be emulated? In this revised edition, Andrzej Huczynski brings his analysis of gurus into the twenty-first century. He identifies the essential ingredients of popular management ideas and contends that company managers, business school academics and management consultants all have the possibility of attaining guru status by following the guidelines contained in this book. It includes an additional chapter by Brad Jackson (Department of Management and Employment Relations, The Auckland University Business School, New Zealand) and Eric Guthey (Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, The Copenhagen Business School, Denmark). Management Gurus is a must read for all those studying organizational behaviour, leadership and organizational psychology or for those who wish to attain guru status.

Author : Andrzej Huczynski
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Gurus written by Andrzej Huczynski and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years organisations have sought the advice of gurus such as Taylor, Fayol, Mayo, Maslow and Peters, and have been willing to pay handsomely for it. Why have the ideas of these consultants become so popular and profitable? What is the secret of their success and can it be emulated? Andrzej Huczynski identifies the essential ingredients of the few popular management ideas of the twentieth century. He shows how company managers, business school academics and management consultants all have the possibility of attaining guru status by following the guidelines contained in this book.

Author : David Greatbatch
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415306232
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Speak written by David Greatbatch and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Management gurus continue to exert tremendous influence over management thinking and strategy, not only through their published works, but more significantly via the international management lecture circuit. Research suggests that public performances are critical to their popularity and success, and that the "best" gurus are all highly skilled in persuasive communication techniques. This book examines techniques, both verbal and non-verbal, used by gurus to communicate their messages and identifies several additional techniques which enhance the gurus' reputations as highly effective orators. It focuses on video recordings of public lectures given by Tom Peters, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Kenneth Blanchard, Daniel Goleman, Gary Hamil, Charles Handy and Peter Senge who are all renowned for their public performances and the impact they have had on organizational life. Challenging and original, this text provides a unique insight into the management guru industry and the persuasive skills of some its leading proponents." -- Jacket.

Author : René ten Bos
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027233035
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fashion and Utopia in Management Thinking written by René ten Bos and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Building upon some rather unusual sources in postmodern theory, the author argues that management fashion might encourage the practitioner to engage in philosophical self-examination and to adopt alternative forms of understanding. However, it is also argued that management fashion often fails to keep up to this promise because it remains paradoxically incapable of laying off its rationalist cloak."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Craig Scott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118955609
Total Pages : 2714 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication, 4 Volume Set written by Craig Scott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 2714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication offers a comprehensive collection of entries contributed by international experts on the origin, evolution, and current state of knowledge of all facets of contemporary organizational communication. Represents the definitive international reference resource on a topic of increasing relevance, in a new series of sub-disciplinary international encyclopedias Examines organization communication across a range of contexts, including NGOs, global corporations, community cooperatives, profit and non-profit organizations, formal and informal collectives, virtual work, and more Features topics ranging from leader-follower communication, negotiation and bargaining and organizational culture to the appropriation of communication technologies, emergence of inter-organizational networks, and hidden forms of work and organization Offers an unprecedented level of authority and diverse perspectives, with contributions from leading international experts in their associated fields Part of The Wiley Blackwell-ICA International Encyclopedias of Communication series, published in conjunction with the International Communication Association. Online version available at Wiley Online Library Awarded 2017 Best Edited Book award by the Organizational Communication Division, National Communication Association

Author : Krzysztof Klincewicz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412827973
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Fashions written by Krzysztof Klincewicz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the theory of management fashions proposed in the 1990s by Eric Abrahamson, Krzysztof Klincewicz analyzes the changing popularity of management concepts accompanied by solutions. Among these are management bestsellers, consulting services, software systems, "methodologies," and approaches to organizational change, training courses, professional certifications and even new corporate positions. The book presents the phenomena of management fashions as being the key driver for the development of the management knowledge industry, consisting of consulting companies, computer firms, publishing houses, professional institutes, and other organizations involved in the launching and the promotion of new management techniques. The author supplements the existing body of knowledge by focusing on the supply-side of management fashions, particularly the strategies and marketing techniques of solution vendors, and proposes a model of relations between management ideas and tangible solutions, explaining how bestselling ideas are turned into objects and institutions. The empirical research described in this volume involves multiple methods, including discourse volume analysis and qualitative historical techniques. Included also is a comprehensive overview of the recent relevant developments in sociology, marketing, and organization sciences, in which the author draws on the heritage of praxiology by taking a meta-level perspective on the propositions of management science. Krzysztof Klincewicz is lecturer at the School of Management, Warsaw University, and researcher at the School of Innovation Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research interests combine organization theory, social sciences, and new technologies, with the focus on strategies of high-tech companies. He is certified chartered marketer of the British Chartered Institute of Marketing, and has numerous years of working experience in business development management for IT companies in Poland, Finland, and in the UK.