The Roots of Excellence (The Successful Manager)

Business & Money

Lessem, Ronnie

Job Hunting & Careers

HarperCollins, Publishers

In a climate of global economic recession and western political stagnation, the Anglo Saxon world seems to have entered a structurally based recession that convential wisdom cannot resolve. This book addresses this structural problem head on to help managers, organizations and economies to evolve. By outlining a pathway of entrepreneurially based self help, free enterprise and human rather than financial capital, Lessem demonstrates the theory and practice of the learning organization. This is an entirely new approach to this subject which looks at major thinkers and their concepts and applies them to real organizations internationally. Moreover, these particular ideas are not limited to specific organizations but to economic development in general.

Business As a Learning Community

Management & Leadership

McGraw-Hill Book Co Ltd

Evolving Work: Employing Self and Community (Transformation and Innovation)

The idea of Self and the authenticity of particular identities have been rapidly dissolving in the acids of post-modern globalising capitalism. The hegemony of patterns of work, wage-labor and the operation of labour markets in the American West (and European North) has ridden rough-shod over distinctive ways of enabling communities to flourish in many parts of the Southern and Eastern worlds (Global South). But, this is not inevitable. Indeed, as this book indicates, there are many practical examples across the globe - that connect with some of the most significant theoretical challenges to the operation of dehumanising work - which reveal that a profound reversal is taking place. As such, the core theme of this book is to show that a movement is occurring whereby self-employment can be transformed into communal work that employs the Self in ways that release the authentic vocations of people, individually and collectively. The approach taken in these chapters traverses the globe, utilising the original 'integral worlds' model that will be familiar to students of the Trans4M/Routledge Transformation and Innovation series, developed over more than a decade. Such a standpoint points the way to the release of particular social and economic cultures in each of what we term the four "realities" or "worldviews" of South, East, North and Western worlds. In this book we use the methodology of GENEalogy - identifying the realms associated with each world - to show how the rhythms, that is Grounding, Emergence, Navigation and Effect, of each is leading to greater economic, social and spiritual freedom for individuals, organisations, communities and, indeed, entire societies.

Bradley, Tony

Business Culture

Routledge

Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

This stimulating, clearly written and well-structured text is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour, as well as a corrective to the eurocentric bias of most management texts. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across the world to examine different management styles, cultures and stages of business development. Contents include: * Orientation * Primal Management - Western including America * Rational Management - Northern including Scandinavia * Developmental Management - Eastern including Japan * Metaphysical Management - Southern including South Africa * Developing yourself as a manager Each section examines core management theory and literature, cultural orientation and related prominent theories. The numerous case studies use appropriate examples from a wide range of international organisations. The uniquely wide-ranging perspective make this a valuable text for all those interested in general management, international business, organisational behaviour and corporate strategy.

International

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the principles of management and organisational behaviour. It develops a trans-cultural perspective which draws on insights from across the world to examine different management styles.

A unique analysis of how a combination of diverse, culturally based approaches are implicitly or explicitly built into the development of a business or organisation. Addressing key issues in developmental management, the author demonstrates how principles of ecology can be applied to different stages of organisational development at both local and global level. Distinctive features include: * examination of management and organisational development from a post-modern perspective * up-to-date case material from a wide range of organisations, spanning the public, private and civic sphere * development of a transcultural approach to the study of management principles and practices, incorporating practical and theoretical insights from across the globe.

From Management Education to Civic Reconstruction: The Emerging Ecology of Organisation (Managing Across Cultures)

Palsule, Sudhanshu

Provides a unique analysis of how a combination of diverse culturally based approaches are implicitly or explicitly built into the development of an organisation. It includes a range of up-to-date case material from the public and private sectors.

Biography & History

Transformation Management: Towards the Integral Enterprise (Transformation and Innovation)

The concept of transformation has long been known to the sciences and has been around in the popular vocabulary for several decades. Because it has never been fully developed as a managed process and applied to our organizations, the way in which we have been trying to deal with the complex issues we face today is looking increasingly inadequate. Transformation management, argue the authors of this inspirational book, now provides the opportunity for the application of the first significant world-wide innovation in the way we manage since Drucker put management itself on the map in the 1950s. In a book that draws on seminal theses and practical examples from the four corners of the world, Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer provide leaders, students of leadership, managers and change agents with a trans-culturally tested, integrated approach to leadership and management. Only through a redefinition of what leadership, management and entrepreneurship amount to, say the authors, can organizations be transformed into sustainable enterprises capable of dealing with the burning issues of our time. Leaders are coming to realise that it is no longer possible for organizations to operate in any sort of isolation from the society and the wider world in which they exist, but paying lip service to notions of either social responsibility or globality is not good enough. From this indispensable book, those whose enterprises are to have any hope of becoming authentically socially responsible or authentically global will learn to understand and activate the process that dynamically links any organization with the society in which it is embedded and that links the local with the global. The practice of transformation management is about creating real value... for organizations, people, and society. This book, from the Transformation and Innovation Series, makes that practice possible.

Schieffer, Alexander

Integral Research and Innovation: Transforming Enterprise and Society (Transformation and Innovation)

The core question underlying Integral Research and Innovation is: 'How can social research be turned into social or indeed "integral" innovation?' Complementing their acclaimed Transformation Management, this second book in the Transformation and Innovation Series explains how the knowledge creation that underpins transformative processes occurs. The authors show how research has to be transformative, rather than just informative if it is to contribute usefully to building integrated and sustainable enterprises. At a time when business practitioners and others responsible for organizational development are desperate for usable knowledge the authors contend that social science research is failing to support business and management generally. Instead, academic researchers engage in esoteric arguments about research methodology which do not contribute usefully to the resolution of real world problems. Drawing on their experience of environments where researchers and practitioners do engage constructively, resulting in research that is active, participative, and genuinely innovative, Professor Lessem and Dr Schieffer are in territory that is far beyond that covered by standard works on research methodology. This is a book not just for academics and researchers wanting to make a meaningful contribution, but also for reflective practitioners from the corporate organizational, and consultancy based worlds who operate in the area of interface between business and management, education, learning, and society, and who need to know how research can be used to make a real difference.

Reference

Integral Economics: Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society (Transformation and Innovation)

Why on earth is economics perceived to come in only one or at best two different a-cultural if not a-moral guises? There are real, and many, alternatives to the economic mainstream. The trouble is, of course, that they are hidden from us. In Integral Economics Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer pave the way for a sustainable approach to economics, building on the richness of diverse economic approaches from all over the globe. By introducing the most evolved economic perspectives and bringing them into creative dialogue they argue that neither individual enterprises nor wider society will be transformed for the better without a new economic perspective. Here, they introduce a comprehensive framework based on the same 'Four Worlds' model that is applied to enterprise and research in their earlier works. Given the richness of even mainstream economic theory reviewed in this book, let alone the variety of alternative approaches introduced, it is frustrating that policymakers and business practitioners are impoverished by a lack of apparent economic choice - between a seemingly failing capitalism and an already failed communism. The 'villains of the piece' in relation to this lack of choice are not so much the financial community and governments, though they do have much to answer, but the schools of economics and the business schools, that have created the very social ethos, the philosophical principles, and the mathematical models, that influence events. Integral Economics is partly addressed to academics and students in those very schools, who have either realized the error of their ways, or, less dramatically, are curious to explore whether our businesses and communities could be run in a different way. It will be welcomed by informed senior practitioners, eager to understand the current rethink of economic theory and practice and to discover how to position themselves, their organizations, and their society within a new framework.

Economics

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The Roots of Excellence (The Successful Manager)

Business As a Learning Community

Evolving Work: Employing Self and Community (Transformation and Innovation)

Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

Management Development Through Cultural Diversity

From Management Education to Civic Reconstruction: The Emerging Ecology of Organisation (Managing Across Cultures)

From Management Education to Civic Reconstruction: The Emerging Ecology of Organisation (Managing Across Cultures)

Transformation Management: Towards the Integral Enterprise (Transformation and Innovation)

Integral Research and Innovation: Transforming Enterprise and Society (Transformation and Innovation)

Integral Economics: Releasing the Economic Genius of Your Society (Transformation and Innovation)