Some of the topics we have spoken over the weeks course based on the book The manager’s bookshelf: A mosaic of contemporary views

Some of the topics we have spoken over the weeks course based on the book The manager’s bookshelf: A mosaic of contemporary views.:

The Practice of Management;

The fourteen steps management must take; (if need be can send the 14 steps in a separate document) page 28 of book…

The theoretical assumptions of management including the selective adaptation, “organizations are more accurately represented as systems of interdependence, and also mentions theory X, & Theory Y.

Learning Disabilities (Seven learning disabilities common to organizations):

1. Identification with one’s position
2. External Enemies: refers to people focusing blame on anything but themselves or their unit.
3. The illusion of taking charge
4. The fixation on events
5. The parable of the boiled frog: meaning the Japan and the U.S. automakers market shareholders.
6. The delusion of learning from experience
7. The myth of management team

Also web pages were provided:

http://www.teleosleaders.com/howwedoit/intentional.php

http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/jvl/vol1_iss1/Spears_Final.pdf

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_porter_why_business_can_be_good_at_solving_social_problems

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_porter_why_business_can_be_good_at_solving_social_problems

http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation

 

AGAIN…. THESE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM, ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE CONTACT ME!!!!!!

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