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Tools and Techniques of Leadership and Management : Meeting the Challenge of Complexity /
Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introduction; The split between managers and leaders; Outline of the book; 2 The theory of complex responsive processes: understanding organizations as patterns of interaction between people; Introduction; Chaos and unpredictability; From the complexity sciences: local interactions and emergent global order; Interdependent individuals and the interplay of human intentions; The emergence of Facebook in the interplay of intentions; Conclusion.
- 3 Understanding organizing activities as the game: implications for leadership and management tools and techniquesIntroduction; The nature of local interactions: communication; The nature of local interactions: power relations; The nature of local interactions: ideology and choices; Local interaction: the impact of the social background; Implications for leadership and management tools and techniques; Conclusion; 4 The leadership and management tools and techniques of instrumental rationality: rules and step-by-step procedures; Introduction; The management tools of instrumental rationality.
- The nature of the tools and techniques of instrumental rationalityConclusion; 5 The limitations of the tools and techniques of instrumental rationality: incompatibility with expert performance; Introduction; Competence, perhaps, but not proficiency or expertise; Critique of the tools and techniques of instrumental rationality and responses to the critique; The tools and techniques of leadership: development programmes and models of leadership; Leadership models; Conclusion; 6 The leadership and management techniques of disciplinary power: surveillance and normalization; Introduction.
- Disciplinary powerThe effects of disciplinary power in organizations; Thinking about leadership programmes; Conclusion; 7 Taking the techniques of disciplinary power to the extreme: domination and coercive persuasion; Introduction; Coercive persuasion; The techniques of coercive persuasion; Complex responsive processes of discipline; Taking the application of the techniques of disciplinary power to extremes: institutionalized bullying; Further thoughts on taking the application of discipline to extremes: 'Doublethink' and 'Newspeak'; Conclusion.
- 8 Institutions and the techniques of leadership and management: habits, rules and routinesIntroduction; The nature of institutions; Institutional change; Power and institutions; The differences between the theory of complex responsive processes and the theories of institutions; Institutions and complex responsive processes: patterns of human interaction; Institutional techniques; Conclusion; 9 The leadership and management 'techniques' of practical judgment: reflexive inquiry, improvisation and political adroitness; Introduction; 'Technique' as a mode of inquiry: narrative and reflexivity.