Organizational Management Approaches and Solutions [Paperback]

Fusing together theory and the application of organizational management, this book provides useful and practical guidelines for planning, leading, and controlling the efforts of a company's members and resources to achieve organizational goals. The editors and chapter contributors take a detailed look at leadership, character in modern organizations, critical approaches to managing people and organizations, the role of trust and corporate social responsibility, team work and management, inter-and intra-generational trends, art-based methods for organizational change, and overcoming resistance to change.  Organizational Managementuses case studies from a range of industrial sectors, including utilities, construction, publishing, aerospace, emergency services, and local government, making it relevant to students entering any organizational environment, be it federal, private, or non-profit.

About the editors and authors
Acknowledgements

Introduction

01 Management and organization: the 21st century global and international context
Simon M Smith
Introduction – traditions and normative stances
Organizational ambidexterity: opening Pandora’s paradox
Global talent management
Concluding thoughts

02 Historical and contemporary contexts: the representation and character of ‘modern’ organizations
Peter Stokes
Introduction
Modernism – a key shaping force of the contemporary world
Positivism and its role in modern business
Frame of reference and epistemology – contextualizing modernism and positivism
The enduring legacy and impact of modernism and positivism
Managerialism
Modernism, fads and fashions in organizational life and literature
Concluding thoughts

03 Using criticallc^