Rethinking Management Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Current Theory and Practice /

• Main Authors: Douglas, Neil (Author), Wykowski, Terry (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Organization.; Planning.; Business ethics.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Business Ethics.

This book challenges the roots and elements of the existing dominant paradigm of management, which can legitimize artless practices and result in dysfunction, and proposes an alternative based on a different understanding of human nature and social and economic life. This paradigm is designed to bri...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. The Roots and Consequences of Organizational and Management Dysfunction
• 1.The Role of Management in Organizational Dysfunction
• 2. Classes of Management Failure
• 3. Roots of the Current, Dominant Management Paradigm
• Part 2. Rethinking Management - An Alternative View
• 4. Roots of an Alternative Management Paradigm
• 5. Management as Learning and Adaptation
• 6. Management as Author, Catalyst and Steward of Purpose
• 7. Management as Facilitation
• 8. Management as an Ethical Enterprise
• Epilogue.