
Management Practice and Mispractice
Samuel Eilon(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2018
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-1-138-56617-0 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1992. The task of management has become increasingly complex in recent years. Chief executives and senior management are confronted with the task of making sense of the multiple factors affecting business systems, and identifying causal relationships in seemingly unstructured problems. In the field of management, a wide gulf exists between theory and practice. Pronouncements from theorists have become increasingly unintelligible to practitioners. Practical propositions from management consultants - often in the form of recipes derived from experience and case studies - are often based on limited hard evidence. This has given rise to many fashions in management. The danger of fashionable doctrine is that they can lead to the adoption of what may be regarded as "management mispractices", namely practices that are based on questionable beliefs and premises. The topics and problems discussed in Management Practice and Mispractice aim to provoke the reader to think about the many issues involved and to question established doctrines and beliefs. This book should be of interest to managers, management consultants and students of management.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-56617-0 (9781138566170)
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Content
Preface; 1. Structuring the Unstructured 2. Mission 3. Determinants of Corporate Performance 4. Board Size and Corporate Failure 5. OR at the Top? 6. A Simple Formula 7. The Bottom-liners 8. A Misleading Performance Measure 9. Prominent Performance Ratios 10. Use and Misuse of Productivity Ratios 11. A Cake Can Be Cut in Many Ways 12. A Transfer Pricing Saga 13. Divide and Rule 14. Management Performance Appraisal 15. What Makes Sammy Run? 16. Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Have to Eat 17. The Role of Business Schools 18. Business Policy for Beginners; Index