Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the Paradoxes and Competing Demands of High Performance

Quinn, Robert E.; Robert E. Quinn (Author)

ISBN 10: 1555420753 / ISBN 13: 9781555420758

Published by Jossey - Bass, Publishers, San Francisco and London, 1989

About this Item

199 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Water warpage on bottom and fore edges from page 50 to end of book.

Seller Inventory # 1iiFd0053

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Rational Management: Mastering the Paradoxes and Competing Demands of High Performance
• Publisher: Jossey - Bass, Publishers, San Francisco and London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555420753
• ISBN 13: 9781555420758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Willi Baum (Jacket Design)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Business, Industrial & Organizational Mgmt
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

About this title

Synopsis

Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes.

From the Back Cover

Draws together extensive research on leadership, change, and organizational performance to help leaders make sense of the complexities and contradictions of organizational life. Offering rich stories and insights from business, Quinn explains how managers can come to see new possibilities for structuring organizations, designing jobs, and solving daily problems by learning to embrace and transcend paradoxes.