Corporate Pathfinders

Corporate Pathfinders

Author: Harold J. Leavitt

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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The author of Management Psychology helps managers to understand some hard-to-measure skills and how to incorporate them into a winning management philosophy.


Corporate DNA

Corporate DNA

Author: Arnold Kransdorff

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-05-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 135194858X

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For more than half a century the developed world has been chasing productivity. It's financed our wealth but that part of output on which our continued prosperity depends - productivity growth - is petering out. The traditional scapegoat has been the dearth of worker skills. But the worker skills base has never been higher! The other explanation is that it is managers who are not giving full value to their employers. The way they're making decisions is conferring virtually no upside potential, which means they're leaving us wide open for experience-poor competitors to step into our experience-rich shoes. Exactly as Japan did in the 1960s and the so-called BRICK countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China (especially China) and Korea - are threatening now. If creeping uncompetitiveness is not to overtake us, from where are the next round of productivity gains to come from? Identifying some gaping holes in the way managers are taught to manage, this book outlines both the size of the problem and a solution. Businesses and other organizations, the author says, have to substantially raise the quality of their decision-making. For this to happen, they need to be much better experiential learners. And for experiential learning to take place, companies and other institutions have to better manage their corporate DNA, the institution-specific experiences otherwise known as Organizational Memory. OM, which characterizes any organization's ability to perform, is the single biggest influence on decision-making excellence. It is a factor of production that has already been paid for at great expense, yet is readily discarded in the backwash of the biggest change in workplace practice for more than a century - the actively-encouraged flexible labour market. Corporate DNA explains why this key component of intellectual capital should be better managed, can be better managed and, particularly, how it can be used to help organizations reduce the pandemic of repeated mistakes, rei


Business Students Focus on Ethics

Business Students Focus on Ethics

Author: Wojciech W. Gasparski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1351326422

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The study of business ethics seeks to understand business institutions, practices and activities in light of normative behavior. The ethical concern is for the rightness or wrongness of human action. Business Students Focus on Ethics brings together essays written by twenty-five MA and MBA students from seven countries in Europe, North and South America, and the Pacific Rim. Collectively, they give us an applied business ethics framework, one with international dimensions.Business Students Focus on Ethics achieves a number of objectives: it recognizes ethics as legitimate content in graduate level studies in business world wide; seriously examines specific ethical concerns by young managers; and reflects on these concerns from across cultural and geographic borders. It also demonstrates the quality of their analysis and recommendations.The essays in this volume are arranged into four interrelated groups. The first group, "Praxiological and Ethical Framework," examines issues of human action from both the theory of human action (i.e., praxiological) and ethical dimensions. The section group of essays, "Social Issues-Compensation and Labor," discuss applications of praxiological and ethical principles in relation to the ethical responsibilities of business. The third group discusses "Ethical Issues in Health Care" from three different cultural perspectives. The fourth group is a series of "Corporate Case Studies." This volume may be seen as a companion to Volume 5 of the Praxiology series, Human Action in Business and will be of interest to business people, economists, policy makers, social scientists and students of philosophy and ethics.


Out of Chaos

Out of Chaos

Author: Gerald A. Arbuckle

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780809130047

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Stresses the fact that refounding persons are essential for the revitalization of religious life.


The Corporate Board

The Corporate Board

Author: Ada Demb

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1992-04-02

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0195361393

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Written for practitioners, this book addresses corporate governance and the role of the board of directors in multinational corporations. Throughout the world, corporations are experiencing the second major transition in corporate governance of this century. The nature of the relationship between the corporation and the rest of society is changing fundamentally. The corporate board has unique responsibilities during this transition, but as it tries to respond directors are faced with destabilizing paradoxes: resolving who is in control--management or the board, achieving critical judgment while maintaining detachment, and avoiding becoming either a cozy club or a collection of all-stars. This book, based on interviews with 71 directors serving on more than 500 boards in eight countries, shows the nature of the challenges and suggests ways to analyze and confront them. This major international study compares the experiences of board members in Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Venezuela.


Intuition

Intuition

Author: Jagdish Parikh

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1994-01-31

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0631192255

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Intuition


Big Business in America

Big Business in America

Author: Thomas J. Dorich

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-02-03

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1498595987

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This study analyzes the influence of big business on the economic, political, and social structure of twentieth-century America. The author examines the development of a mass production and consumption economy and argues that the corporation became a key institutional force in the United States.


Decisions

Decisions

Author: Gerard H. Gaynor

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1119020255

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DECISIONS focuses on how organizations can improve decision-making processes to improve organizational performance in a global economy. Presents research related to problems associated with meeting requirements, schedules, and costs Defines the scope of macro and micro decisions Raises the issue of the role of engineering, manufacturing, and marketing in making organizational decisions Includes references to Peter Drucker’s studies on decision-making


Team Unity

Team Unity

Author: John Ross

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-04-21

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1000577414

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Based on more than ten years of researching, observing, coaching, and building extraordinary teams, this entertaining and thought-provoking book demonstrates how to unify groups of all sizes to maximize performance. Unity is the most influential factor in team performance and, although it is frequently discussed, it is often misunderstood. This book explains how disunity is the root cause of all team dysfunctions, and provides clear instructions on how to define, measure, and increase unity in your organization. Through entertaining and impactful stories, John Ross divides Team Unity into four components - focus, direction, trust, and conflict – and examines how they are related and measured. Notably, Ross introduces The Unity Formula: a simple equation useful for leaders at all levels in any organization to measure the team’s current unity and identify areas for improvement. Senior and middle managers in manufacturing, hospitality, and a range of other industries, as well as entry level employees and students of organizational behavior and HRM, will find this book an invaluable resource for understanding how to identify, measure and partake in the right steps to increase team performance.


Annual Statistical Report

Annual Statistical Report

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1919

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13:

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1867/68- include the Statistical report of the Secretary of State in continuation of the Annual report of the Commissioners of Statistics.