Traditional management structures, systems, and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial age efficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves andtells them how to do it. MARK ADDLESON is an Associate Professor of Management Economics at George Mason University School of Public Policy, Washington D.C., USA. Before joiningGeorge Mason University in 1994, Professor Addleson taught for more than 20 years in his native South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was head of the General Management program. From 1989 to 1994, Professor Addleson was a director of Econometrix, a firm of consultants with clients across all sectors of the economy. He has consulted with many companies and public and non-profit organizations bothin the United States and South Africa. Professor Addleson publishes regularlyin academic journals and has authored books, newspaper articles, and papers presented at local and overseas conferences. He has been awarded numerous research grants and the Wits Business School's award for teaching excellence. INDICE: The End of the Line - Getting into Work - Organizing: Getting the Beat - 'Jeff's Journal: Project Work on the Inside' - Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Organizing - Knowledge-Work in Close-Up - The Work of Organizingwith Giant Hairballs and Wicked Problems - Tools are the Empty Heart of Management or Why Strategic Initiatives Fail - Practices that Break the Mould with Agility and Care - In Search of Low-Control Organizing Practices: Community, Care, Cooperation, and Commitment - Taking On the Work of Organizing - Conversations for Aligning: Openness, Commitments, and Accountability - Organizing Moves - Handling Hierarchy and More - Good Work Wanted -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30816-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 22/09/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés