The Challenges of Indian Management - Softcover

Virmani, B R

9780761935513: The Challenges of Indian Management

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761935517 ISBN 13: 9780761935513

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

This book documents how Indian organizations are coping with the challenges of change in managerial practices and policies over the last two decades. With an in-depth historical perspective and a thorough analysis of the four types of organizations in India―the traditional family-owned private sector, the public sector, government undertakings, and multinationals―the author focuses on certain common management styles, policies, and practices that are in consonance with the Indian environment.

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About the Author:

B.R. Virmani is the founder Chairman, Centre for Organisation Research & Development in Management (CORD-M), Hyderabad, India.

He has been the Dean and IPCL Chair Professor of Strategic Management at the Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad, from 1973 to 1998. Besides, he was visiting Fellow at the Manchester Business School, UK, and Senior Research Fellow at the Friedrich Ebert Institute, Bonn, Germany. He has been a member of the resources faculty for programmes of the Asian and Pacific Development Administration Centre, Kuala Lumpur; Consortium for Oil Training, Baghdad, Iraq; Asian Productivity Organization, Singapore, and the Dubai institute of Business Management, among others.

Professor Virmani has also been consultant to a number of public and private sector organizations and government departments in India and abroad, such as, Indian Rayon; Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL); Indianoil Corporation (IOC); Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC); Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL); the Government of Belize for Reorganization of Civil Service on behalf of the Commonwealth Secretariat, London; USAID; Centre for Financial Engineering and Development, Washington D.C. and to the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of the British Government.

Professor Virmani has published over 50 articles and 14 books, including Managing People in Organisations: Challenges of Change; Indian Management; Evaluating Management and Development; Participative Management vs. Collective Bargaining; Workers Education; Economic Development Alternatives: Andaman and Nicobar Island; Economic Restructuring, Technology Transfer and Human Resource Development etc.

Review:

This book is a seminal attempt to understand the nature of management in India and how can it be institutionalised.

Author: Indian Management

A very well documented piece presenting styles and practices of managements’ in Indian Firms...it is a great piece of document, with a whole lot of discussion of the management practices and styles, importance of culture and a focus on future. The book is worth reading for the managers working in the contemporary organizations, students of management, practitioners, consultants, and the boards.

Author: South Asian Journal of Management

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