Rethinking Management Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Curr
This book challenges the roots and elements of the existing dominant paradigm of management, which can legitimize artless practices and result in dysfunction, and proposes an alternative based on a different understanding of human nature and social and ec
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Neil Douglas Terry Wykowski
Rethinking Management
Neil Douglas • Terry Wykowski
Rethinking Management Confronting the Roots and Consequences of Current Theory and Practice
Neil Douglas Oxford Consulting Group Houston, Texas, USA
Terry Wykowski Oxford Consulting Group Houston, Texas, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-41901-5 ISBN 978-3-319-41902-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41902-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016960041 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
Some organizations are well managed and accomplish great things, some organizations succeed in spite of the artless quality of their management, some organizations muddle along sub-optimally and some simply fail. There is a dominant management paradigm that lies in the midst of a chain of circumstances or layers of influence that often brings about less than adept management behavior and, too frequently, organizational dysfunction and failure. The taken for granted unity of thought regarding management expressed as a paradigm, rooted in a core set of assumptions, has evolved over a hundred years or more. It has developed within the context of business but has become something like orthodoxy, finding its way into all kinds of organizations, including hospitals, educational institutions, foundations and governments. We believe that rethinking the concept and practice of management is long overdue, given our better- developed understanding of t
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