Effective Manager: Perspectives and Illustrations
by Billsberry J Sage Publications Ltd- Pub Date:
- 02/1996
- ISBN:
- 9780761951117
- Format:
- Pbk 360 pages
- Price:
- AU$104.00 NZ$106.96
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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 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