TY - GEN AU - Crainer,Stuart AU - Crainer,Stuart TI - Key management ideas: thinkers that changed the management world SN - 027364114X AV - HD30.5 .C72 1998 U1 - 658 21 PY - 1998/// CY - London PB - Prentice Hall KW - Management KW - History N1 - Previous ed. is titled "Key management ideas : thinking that changed the mangement world", published in 1996; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The new world of management; From the machine age to the information age; F. W. Taylor: Management as science; Henri Fayol: Defining management; Beyond scientific management; The mythology of managerial work; Peter Drucker: The prophet of change; Knowledge management; Decision theory --; 2; The new world of organizations; The rise and fall of the functional organization; Down the functional tunnel; Alfred P. Sloan: Antidotes to functional failure; The life and death of organizations; The new organizational model; General Electric; ABB; Charles Handy: Shaping the future --; 3; The challenge of technology; IT and the new organization; The virtual organization; The E company --; 4; Creating and implementing strategy; The holy grail of strategy; The analytical stranglehold; The Boston Matrix; Making strategy work; Michael Porter: Strategy and competitive advantage; The route from ideas to action; Henry Mintzberg: Strategy as craft; New perspectives on strategy; The balanced scorecard --; 5; New ways of managing people; From personnel to human resources; Tom Peters: Evangelizing people; Empowerment; Practising empowerment; Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Creating empowerment; 360 degree feedback; Managing talent; Managing change; How do people view change?; Seven skills to manage change; Richard Pascale: From change to transformation --; 6; Careers and working life; From corporate man to Generation X; Career management; New ways of working; Self-managed development --; 7; The quality revolution; The discovery of quality; W. Edwards Deming and Joseph Juran: The quality gospel; Quality for the masses; Reengineering; Lean production --; 8; Reinventing marketing; Hard selling - the rise of marketing; The quest to becomes market driven; The Four Ps of marketing; Relationship marketing; Brand management; The rise of brands --; 9; Leadership; The rise of the new model leader; Military models; The evolution of leadership; The new leader; Warren Bennis: Doing the right thing; Teamworking --; 10; Learning and development; The rise of the learning business; Chris Argyris: The learning challenge; The learning organization; Seven obstacles to creating learning organization; The changing role of business schools; The emerging business school; Action learning --; 11; Global management; Discovering the world; Key drivers behind globalization; Making the global company work; Fons Trompenaars: Cosmopolitan man; The rise of the global brand; The rise of mass customization; Glossary of management thinkers N2 - "This book aims to make leading edge ideas more accessible. For quick reference, the Glossary includes an A-Z of key management thinkers with details of their main ideas and publications."--BOOK JACKET ER -