Management Fads and Buzzwords
Management Fads and Buzzwords

Author: David Collins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1136295089

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Around 5,000 business and management titles are published every year, and increasingly, their preferred mode of presentation is centred on the creation and marketing of buzzwords and fads. This book argues that these management fads and buzzwords deflect critical inquiry and limit useful action because they present a 'ready made' view of the world, which rejects the benefits of theoretical analysis and reflection. Topics covered include: * the 'guru industry' * 'excellence' * business process re-engineering * empowerment * culture * knowledge work * globalization. 'Unpacking' the 'guru industry' and analyzing the fads and buzzwords, this book provides a 'critical-practical' analysis, designed to allow readers to locate, understand and critique management fashion.

Management Fads and Buzzwords
Management Fads and Buzzwords

Author: David Collins

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780415206402

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This text argues that the fads and buzzwords of management deflect critical inquiry and limit useful action because they present a "ready made" view of the world, which rejects the benefits of theoretical analysis and reflection. The book attempts to "unpack" the "guru industry" and the fads and buzzwords of management to provide a c̀ritical-practical' analysis, designed to allow readers to locate, to understand and to critique management fashion.

Management Fads in Higher Education
Management Fads in Higher Education

Author: Robert Birnbaum

Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Published: 2000-08-04

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Birnbaum traces the paths of seven popular management fads in higher education, presenting a model describing their life cycle -- development, diffusion, consequences and eventual disappearance. He shows how management fads contributed to several major problems in higher education, and explains what academic managers can do to maximize the benefits fads can provide while minimizing their organizational costs. Index.

Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense
Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense

Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2006-02-14

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1422154580

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The best organizations have the best talent. . . Financial incentives drive company performance. . . Firms must change or die. Popular axioms like these drive business decisions every day. Yet too much common management “wisdom” isn’t wise at all—but, instead, flawed knowledge based on “best practices” that are actually poor, incomplete, or outright obsolete. Worse, legions of managers use this dubious knowledge to make decisions that are hazardous to organizational health. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton show how companies can bolster performance and trump the competition through evidence-based management, an approach to decision-making and action that is driven by hard facts rather than half-truths or hype. This book guides managers in using this approach to dismantle six widely held—but ultimately flawed—management beliefs in core areas including leadership, strategy, change, talent, financial incentives, and work-life balance. The authors show managers how to find and apply the best practices for their companies, rather than blindly copy what seems to have worked elsewhere. This practical and candid book challenges leaders to commit to evidence-based management as a way of organizational life—and shows how to finally turn this common sense into common practice.

Flavor of the Month
Flavor of the Month

Author: Joel Best

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2006-04-10

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0520246268

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Management Gurus and Management Fashions
Management Gurus and Management Fashions

Author: Brad Jackson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1134534833

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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 fashio

Management Fashions
Management Fashions

Author: Krzysztof Klincewicz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1351507362

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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.

Management Consulting
Management Consulting

Author: International Labour Office

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 936

ISBN-13: 9789221095194

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New topics covered in this edition include: e-business consulting; consulting in knowledge management; total quality management; corporate governance; social role and responsibility of business; company transformation and renewal; and public administration.

Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage
Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage

Author: Manikant Singh

Publisher: Global India Publications

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9788190721158

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Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage provides the most accurate, relevant, and complete presentation of strategic management today.This book is thoroughly updated to include cutting edge research and trends that are shaping business strategy.The editor guides students through the strategic management process using a unique model that blends the classic industrial organisational model with the resource-based view of the firm to explain how firms use the strategic management process to build a sustained competitive advantage.The text includes current and relevant examples to provide context for key concepts, outstanding figures and models to illustrate key points, and other section contains engaging and exemplary cases that cover a broad range of critical issues confronting managers today.

Strategic Management and Core Competencies
Strategic Management and Core Competencies

Author: Anders Drejer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-06-30

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0313006717

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Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main argument is that understanding core competencies is key to explaining why some firms enjoy a competitive advantage over others. Drejer proposes models and means with which managers can proactively identify, design, and develop their firm's core competencies in strategic alignment. More than merely a how-to book, this work places an equal emphasis on the concepts behind competence-based strategy. The author offers the reader multiple perspectives on the background of competence-based strategy, the relationship between strategic management and the development of core competencies, and the application of competence-based strategy to praxis. He provides the tools necessary to identify, analyze, and develop the competencies of a firm, and in so doing performs a valuable service for practitioners and researchers.