
Managing Professionals
Hans de Bruijn(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 16. July 2010
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-0-415-56508-0 (ISBN)
Description
Managing Professionals deals with the tensions between managers and professionals within organizations, such as hospitals, universities, banks and judicial organizations. Often managers rely heavily on the skills and expertise of the professionals in their organizations, yet these professionals consider management a source of bureaucracy and paperwork.
This tension is explored head on in order to answer the question of how to manage an organization effectively. With numerous real-world examples, the book analyzes the problems and complexities of management in professional organizations and makes recommendations on how to manage professionals. The book focuses on a number of key issues, including:
Management as a problem
Management as a solution
Knowledge and innovation
Strategy
Cooperation
Performance
Managing Professionals presents an empirical analysis of the problems and offers solutions to the tension between management and professionals and will be of interest to managers and to students of management, organizational behaviour and business administration.
This tension is explored head on in order to answer the question of how to manage an organization effectively. With numerous real-world examples, the book analyzes the problems and complexities of management in professional organizations and makes recommendations on how to manage professionals. The book focuses on a number of key issues, including:
Management as a problem
Management as a solution
Knowledge and innovation
Strategy
Cooperation
Performance
Managing Professionals presents an empirical analysis of the problems and offers solutions to the tension between management and professionals and will be of interest to managers and to students of management, organizational behaviour and business administration.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional
Illustrations
6 s/w Tabellen, 21 s/w Zeichnungen, 27 s/w Abbildungen
6 Tables, black and white; 21 Line drawings, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
482 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-56508-0 (9780415565080)
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Person
Hans de Bruijn is a Professor of Public Administration at Delft University, the Netherlands. Much of his research and consultancy focuses on the role of managers in professional organizations. He is the author of Managing Performance in the Public Sector and co-author of Management in Networks, both published by Routledge.
Content
1. They Can't Live with Each Other, Can't Live without Each Other 2. Management as a Problem 3. Management as a Solution 4. Strategic Management 5. Quality Management 6. Coordination and Cooperation 7. Knowledge Management and Innovation 8. Performance Management 9. Change Management 10. Beyond the One-Handed Organization