Key Management Ideas: The Thinkers Who Change the Way We Manage

This book aims to make leading edge ideas more accessible. For quick reference, the Glossary includes an A-Z of key management thinkers with details of their main ideas and publications.

The wide-ranging nature of modern management means that managers need constantly to bring in concepts from a spectrum of leading edge ideas now at their disposal. However, time and budget can make it impossible to keep up with every management development, fad or initiative.

While Key Management Ideas does not seek to lessen the challenge of management, it may help to make the trends, influences, and people behind them, more intelligible.

The third edition of this book has been substantially updated to include new sections on subjects including Intellectual Capital, Lean Production and the Balanced Scorecard. There are two new chapters on The Challenge of Technology and Careers and Working Life.

For each key idea covered, the book outlines:

• the essential content and background to the idea
• the potential benefits and pitfalls
• the key advocates of the idea and their thoughts
• best practices and first steps to implementation

Principle ideas covered include:

• the new world of management and organization
• the challenge of technology
• creating and implementing strategy
• new ways of managing people and leadership
• careers and working life
• the quality revolution
• learning and development
• global management
• reinventing marketing

This book aims to make leading edge ideas more accessible. For quick reference, the Glossary includes an A-Z of key management thinkers with details of their main ideas and publications.

Key thinkers and their ideas profiled include:Henri Fayol: Defining managementPeter Drucker: The prophet of changeCharles Handy: Shaping the futureMichael Porter: Strategy and competitive advantageHenry Mintzberg: Strategy as craftTom Peters: Evangelizing peopleRosabeth Moss Kanter: Creating empowermentRichard Pascale: From change to transformationW Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran: The quality of gospelWarren Bennis: Doing the right thingChris Argyris: The learning challengeFons Trompenaars: Cosmopolitan man