Management Fads

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The Handbook of Management Fads: Survival in Business-- without Taking Yourself Too Seriously
by Steve Morris. 99 pgs.

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The Handbook of Management Fads: Survival in Business… Without Taking Yourself Too Seriously

Thank You

The Author

Contents

1: What's Your Affliction?

2: An Anatomy of Fiddle-Faddles

3: Fiddling with Environments

4: Fiddling with Processes

5: Fiddling with People

6: Stop the World… …or How to Lose the Bathwater and Keep the Baby

7: Glossary of Gurus and Management Thinkers

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Management Fashion: Lifecycles, Triggers, and Collective Learning Processes, in Administrative Science Quarterly
by Eric Abrahamson, Gregory Fairchild. 34 pgs.
3.

Beyond the Fads: How Leaders Drive Change with Results, in Human Resource Planning
by Ronald N. Ashkenas. 20 pgs.
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What Bandwagons Bring: Effects of Popular Management Techniques on Corporate Performance, Reputation, and CEO Pay, in Administrative Science Quarterly
by Barry M. Staw, Lisa D. Epstein. 37 pgs.
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Fad Surfing in the Boardroom: Managing in the Age of Instant Answers
by Eileen C. Shapiro. 254 pgs.

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Fad Surfing in the Boardroom has been hailed by critics whose only regret is that (Shapiro) didn't write ten years ago....Eileen Shapiro doesn't miss a trick....(The Fad Surfer's Dictionary) is hard to resist.

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Note to Readers

Introduction Surf's Up!: The High-Stakes Thrills of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom

Part One Which Way is Up?: Setting the Overall Direction

Chapter 1 That "Vision Thing": Picturing the Future When Your Crystal Ball Isn't 20/20

Chapter 2 Mission Indecipherable: Getting to Content

Chapter 3 a Gambler's Guide to Setting Direction: Why a Company's Real Strategy is in Its Book of Bets

Part Two Life in the Upside-Down Pyramid: Facilitating Collective Action

Chapter 4 the Flat-Org Theory of Modern Management: Organizing for People Instead of for Theories

Chapter 5 Decoding the Corporate Culture: Time to Say Good-Bye to the Excuse for All Seasons

Chapter 6 Open Environments and Other Organizational Fantasies: Who Knows Where the Information Goes?

Part Three the Empowerment Conundrum: Enhancing Individual Action

Chapter 7 Empower Them Please (but Not Too Much): It's the "Power" Part That Creates the Rub

Chapter 8 Judgment, Empowerment, and the Parable of the Talents: Why Judgment is Essential to Empowerment

Part Four Through a Glass Darkly: Determining What the Customers Really Want

Chapter 9 Customer Dissatisfaction: Three Myths of the "Customer-Sat" Movement

Chapter 10 the (inharmonious) Voice of the Customer: Seeking the Irritating Whine That Must Be Heard

Chapter 11 "Customer Focus" and Other Product Development Delusions: What Love Has Got to Do with It

Part Five Fuzzy Logic: Moving from Customers to Strategy

Chapter 12 the Value "Revolution" and the "Death" of Brand Loyalty: Consumers' Revenge on Shortsighted Companies

Chapter 13 Procrustean Strategies: Why the Real Question Is, How Differentiated and at What Costs

Part Six More Instant Answers Paddling Out to the Biggest Waves

Chapter 14 Total Quality Mayhem When Cookbook Compliance Creates Quality Quagmires

Chapter 15 Reengineering and the Labors of Hercules: There's More Than One Way to Leap to Breakthrough Results

Chapter 16 Low-Cost Migraines: How to Cost Cut Your Way to Big Trouble

Endnote the Pilot's Art a Look at the Courage to Manage in the Age of Instant Answers

The Expanded Fad Surfer's Dictionary of Business Basics

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Index

Permissions Acknowledgments
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Management Fads: Here Yesterday, Gone Today?, in SAM Advanced Management Journal
by Charles W. Blackwell, Jane Whitney Gibson, Dana V. Tesone. 7 pgs.
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Strategic Management and Core Competencies: Theory and Application ("Management Fads and Their Inherent Problems" begins on p. 28)
by Anders Drejer. 229 pgs.

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Managers and management scholars alike need operational models and concepts for dealing with core competencies within strategic management. This book provides tools for the practitioner as well as fundamental theoretical concepts to enable scholars to further build upon Drejer's work. His main argument is that understanding core competencies is key to explaining why some firms enjoy a competitive advantage over others. Drejer proposes models and means with which managers can proactively identify, design, and develop their firm's core competencies in strategic alignment.

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Preface

Introduction

1: The History of Strategic Management

2: The Alphabet Soup of Strategic Management

3: What Shaped Competence-Based Strategy?

4: Competence-Based Strategy So Far

5: Toward a New Perception of Competencies

6: A Framework for Competence-Based Strategy

7: Identification and Analysis of Competencies

8: Competence Development

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The Life Cycle of Academic Management Fads, in Journal of Higher Education
by Robert Birnbaum. 16 pgs.
9.

Schools of Thought in and against Total Quality, in Journal of Managerial Issues
by Helene Giroux, Sylvain Landry. 21 pgs.
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Reengineering: The Missing Links, in Human Resource Planning
by Russell L. Leonard Jr. 8 pgs.
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Six Sigma for Everyone
by George Eckes. 130 pgs.

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Praise for George Eckes and Six Sigma for Everyone

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Chapter 1: What Can Six Sigma Do for You?

Chapter 2: The Strategic Component of Six Sigma

Chapter 3: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control

Chapter 4: 10 Technical Tools to Master While on a Six Sigma Team

Chapter 5: 10 “soft” Tools You Will Need on a Six Sigma Team

Chapter 6: 10 Common Questions About Six Sigma

Appendix: Process Capability and Sigma Conversion Table

Index
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The Congruence of People and Organizations: Healing Dysfunction from the inside Out ("Matrix Management" begins on p. 92)
by Jack R. Gibb, Lloyd C. Williams. 198 pgs.

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Figures

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Part One: How Dysfunction Occurs

1: The Case for Dysfunction

2: Values and Beliefs: Impacts on Dysfunction

3: Belief Systems' Impact on Organizational Functioning: Who Is in Charge?

4: Personal Dysfunction: Struggles to Remain Comfortable

Part Two: Three Perspectives on Dysfunctional Performance

5: Case #1: A Look at Gay and Lesbian Organizations

6: Case #2: The Codependent Municipality

7: Case #3: Culture Shock--The Struggling Utility

Part Three: Building Functional Strategies

8: Building Functional Strategies: An Overview

9: Building Functional Strategies: A Step-by-Step Approach

10: Practical Application of the Belief Systems

11: The Emerging Treasurer's Office: Embracing the Challenge to Become Congruent

12: The Congruence Challenge: Utilizations of the Belief Systems Process

13: The Congruent Person and the Congruent Organization

Appendix: Belief Systems Questionnaire

Bibliographic Essay

Index

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Just Say No to Training Fads, in T&D
by Shari Caudron. 6 pgs.
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A Kind Word for Theory X: Or Why So Many Newfangled Management Techniques Quickly Fail, in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
by Michael P. Bobic, William Eric Davis. 26 pgs.

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