Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work - Hardcover

Addleson, M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230308163 ISBN 13: 9780230308169

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it.

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MARK ADDLESON is an Associate Professor of Management Economics at George Mason University School of Public Policy, Washington D.C., USA. Before joining George Mason University in 1994, Professor Addleson taught for more than 20 years in his native South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand's Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was head of the General Management program. From 1989 to 1994, Professor Addleson was a director of Econometrix, a firm of consultants with clients across all sectors of the economy. He has consulted with many companies and public and non-profit organizations both in the United States and South Africa. Professor Addleson publishes regularly in academic journals and has authored books, newspaper articles, and papers presented at local and overseas conferences. He has been awarded numerous research grants and the Wits Business School's award for teaching excellence.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0230308163
• ISBN 13: 9780230308169
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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