Management Dilemmas

Author : Sona Sherratt,Roger Delves
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273794707

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The Top 50 Management Dilemmas by Sona Sherratt,Roger Delves Pdf

The Top 50 Management Dilemmas provides help on the most common hurdles that managers face. It will help you understand every situation better so you know exactly what to do, fast. Whatever your challenge – an individual, your team, external clients, conflict, change or power – you’ll discover how to: Get things done quicker, better and right – quickly understand what you need to do to get the best results Develop stronger relationships – get the best from others, manage your team better and transform your dealings with clients Build your problem-solving toolkit – avoid getting stuck and develop a powerful set of skills Boost your reputation - be known as an adaptable, flexible and forward-thinking manager who always delivers The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Author : Eli Schragenheim
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781498738095

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Management Dilemmas by Eli Schragenheim Pdf

An incredible ability awaits managers who practice Theory of Constraints (TOC) techniques: they can take a problem, look beyond the less important details, and directly identify the source of trouble. They've been known to promptly resolve perplexing matters - while the uninformed remain stuck. So many more managers could gain the benefit of TOC thinking... if they only took the time. Eli Schragenheim now offers an informative and enjoyable self-learning method, proving how TOC can be invaluable at a wide variety of workplaces. Management Dilemmas: The Theory of Constraints Approach to Problem Identification and Solutions conveys TOC methods through "virtual experience"-stories of managers and the situations they need to resolve. Take note of the dilemmas they're facing. Think about how you would respond under those circumstances. Then, compare your reactions with Schragenheim's TOC-influenced analysis. Associated with Dr. Eli Goldratt (the founder of TOC) for seven years, Schragenheim doesn't tell how the stories end. Instead, he encourages the reader to try out TOC techniques-especially the need to arrive at the most precise answer by raising the right questions. The conclusions you reach today could greatly help your on-the-job thinking tomorrow!

Author : Sona Sherratt,Roger Delves
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273794691

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The Top 50 Management Dilemmas by Sona Sherratt,Roger Delves Pdf

Author : Christina Garsten,Tor Hernes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134073337

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Ethical Dilemmas in Management by Christina Garsten,Tor Hernes Pdf

This exciting new text engages with the issue of ethical dilemmas encountered in different organizations. By exploring the conditions that lead to these dilemmas and the strategies used to deal with or steer away from them, this book provides a deeper understanding of ethical processes.

Author : Malcolm J. M. Cooper,Malcolm J.M. Cooper,Athula Gnanapala
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527532502

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Managerial Dilemmas in Developing Countries by Malcolm J. M. Cooper,Malcolm J.M. Cooper,Athula Gnanapala Pdf

Since organizations and industries are the catalysts for sustainable development, managing organizations and industries along with resource protection dilemmas is critical for developing countries. This volume brings together contributions from experts and new researchers on managerial dilemmas in developing countries, and is divided into five parts: namely, organizational development; human resource management; consumer behaviour; finance; and tourism and hospitality. The chapters in the first section provide empirical insights into e-learning systems, information systems for decision-making processes, business reengineering, and performance efficiency. The second part explores the role of human resource, organization downsizing, work-life balance, fair treatment and a good working environment, job satisfaction and job stress, the big five personality traits, and psychological contract and employment. The next section investigates bank interest rates, insurance policies, organic foods in consumer behaviour, and a marketing value chain analysis of cinnamon. Studies of the effect of financial development, foreign direct investment on economic and endogenous growth, and the effect of institutional excellence and information efficiency on stock market development make up the fourth part of the book. The fifth section then embraces studies of the impact of tourist guides on tourist satisfaction, the behavioural characteristics of solo female travellers, community participation in tourism, and the unplanned development of tourism.

Author : Christina Garsten,Tor Hernes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134073320

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Ethical Dilemmas in Management by Christina Garsten,Tor Hernes Pdf

This exciting new text engages with the issue of ethical dilemmas encountered in different organizations. Rather than exploring the definition of ethical conduct, this book focuses on the way in which the process of organization produces dilemmas of ethical behaviour. Using illustrative accounts from corporate settings as a basis, the book explores

Author : Gary J. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521457696

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Managerial Dilemmas by Gary J. Miller Pdf

Managerial Dilemmas extends the use of analytical techniques from organisational economics to the spheres of organisational culture and leadership in politics and business.

Author : John Storey,Graeme Salaman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1444316591

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Managerial Dilemmas by John Storey,Graeme Salaman Pdf

In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underlying assumptions underpinning business decisions over many decades has now been shaken. But it is not enough to rail against arrogance and greed. Within their own (flawed) assumptions bankers and corporate leaders were acting rationally. A major reason for the failure to anticipate and warn is that observers of organizations usually tend to view organizations in terms similar to those employed by the people who run them: as rational, sensible and objective, whereas, in fact, they are usually confused and confusing, paradoxical and contradictory entities. Paradox is at the heart of how organizations work (or don’t work) yet the phenomenon has been strangely unstudied. In an age of crisis and uncertainty, dilemmas and paradoxes are especially evident and prevalent. The fascination and the promise of paradox is that there is also a sense that there is a hidden truth entwined within the opposites. This we contend is a challenge for leaders. The ultimate responsibility of leadership is to make sense of these and to handle them in a competent manner. This demands a new mode of leadership. The management of dilemma and paradox it is contended, the essence of leadership today. Paradoxical forces provide a dynamism which, although often experienced as potentially threatening, discomforting and negative can also be exciting, promising and positive. "The assumption that organizations are rational entities is challenged every day in the work environment by a rich reality of asymmetries between conflicting forces, complexity, hidden intentions and paradoxes. Anyone wanting to understand the real forces that govern organizations should read this book. A must read for modern leaders who have the intellectual honesty to lead organisations with open eyes and not with the over simplifications and clichés of the past"--Giovanni Ghisetti, Director Business Transformation, Coca Cola Enterprises Europe "Storey and Salaman’s description of the paradoxes which characterise leadership today is hauntingly accurate. Their intelligent optimism that those dilemmas can be met is as encouraging as it is challenging for those of us who have to do just that. Having read the insights in this book I now understand how their business advice was always so pertinent".--Andy Street, Managing Director of John Lewis

Author : Raymond Sanchez Mayers, PhD,Federico Souflee, Jr., PhD,Dick J. Schoech, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826197849

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Dilemmas in Human Services Management by Raymond Sanchez Mayers, PhD,Federico Souflee, Jr., PhD,Dick J. Schoech, PhD Pdf

Drawing on their experience as teachers and social workers, the authors introduce students to the complex skills necessary for effective management in human service administration. In this textbook, they present actual problems through concise case studies with study-guide questions for discussion. The illustrative case studies cover a broad range of situations and dilemmas that a human services student can expect to encounter as an administrator ñ from sexual harassment to ethical concerns. By focusing on human service agencies, the authors fill a gap in social work literature for administration, planning, and management students.

Author : Wim Liebrand,David Messick,Henk Wilke
Publisher : Garland Science
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134675364

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Social Dilemmas by Wim Liebrand,David Messick,Henk Wilke Pdf

This book describes the advances and insights made by social scientists from around the world into the understanding and resolution of social dilemmas. Each chapter discusses its own research findings against the background of a more comprehensive view of social dilemnas.

Author : Audrey J. Murrell,Faye J. Crosby,Robin J. Ely
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135684907

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Mentoring Dilemmas by Audrey J. Murrell,Faye J. Crosby,Robin J. Ely Pdf

This book reveals a long-neglected aspect of the mentoring process that has proven so important in all areas of professional life: mentoring across cultural, racial, and gender lines. For all those in education who have mentored or been mentored.

Author : Robert W. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521266343

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The Space Telescope by Robert W. Smith Pdf

Robert Smith's The Space Telescope sets the fascinating and disturbing history of this massive venture within the context of 'Big Science'. Launched at a cost of no more than $2 billion, the Space Telescope turned out to be seriously flawed by imperfections in the construction of its lenses and by solar panels that caused it to shudder when moving from daylight to darkness. Smith analyses how the processes of Big Science, especially those involving the government's funding process for large-scale projects, contributed to those failures. He reveals the astonishingly complex interactions that took place among the scientific community, government and industry and describes the great range of personalities and forces - scientific, technical, political, social, institutional and economic - that played roles in the Space Telescope's history.

Author : R.J. Berry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780585365770

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Environmental Dilemmas by R.J. Berry Pdf

This is a book by people who have had to make decisions which affect the environment in which we all live, decisions which sometimes affect the quality of life of millions. It is not an academic disquisition on how to approach decision-making. Most of the chapters are written by scientists who have had to take action or make recommendations on environmental matters in situations where the data are incomplete or choices hedged by factors beyond scientific resolution; the result is that they have had to resolve dilemmas about the proper way forward in the matter. My brief to the authors was to describe issues with which they had been personally concerned, rather than simply select from the vast range of envir- mental problems 'out there'. The only exception to this was Andrew Brennan (Chapter 1), who is a professional philosopher; I asked him to say something about the processes and errors indulged by environmental decision-makers. There is some overlap between chapters, but this is not extensive. I have made no attempt to eliminate it, because the aim has been to present personal points of view, not a systematic account of environmental problems. Similarly, there are important topics which are not covered. Indeed, a critic would complain that a book on environmental dilemmas which does not deal directly with the crucial divide between development and conservation is almost wholly irrelevant; from one point of view, it could be condemned as fiddling while Rome burns.

Author : Frank Buytendijk
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470768488

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Dealing with Dilemmas by Frank Buytendijk Pdf

Observing how business management is obsessed with analysis and numbers, Dealing with Dilemmas shows there is an entire class of problems that cannot be solved by analysis: business dilemmas. Dilemmas, representing a large part of strategic decision-making, require the opposite approach of analysis; synthesis. Dealing with Dilemmas shows how popular performance management methodologies can be used in new and previously unexplored ways. It authoritatively shows you how your business can move forward strategically in ways previously impossible. Shows dangers in current thinking around analytics and performance management Includes practical case examples and interviews with C-level executives and government officials world-wide, both in commercial enterprise and public sector Makes the most nebulous of management processes, strategy formulation, insightful and links it tightly to strategy execution and performance management. Filled with case studies and examples, this book reveals how your business can start solving dilemmas and move forward strategically.

Author : Morais da Costa, Goncalo Jorge
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781615208746

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Ethical Issues and Social Dilemmas in Knowledge Management: Organizational Innovation by Morais da Costa, Goncalo Jorge Pdf

"This book considers ethical issues and social dilemmas at two levels: the individual vs. individual and the individual vs. the collective, providing a thorough treatment of these facets and demonstrating the philosophical underpinnings of each dimension of knowledge management"--Provided by publisher.