Management Mumbo Jumbo

Author : A. Furnham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230626599
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Management Mumbo-Jumbo written by A. Furnham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author and psychologist, Adrian Furnham, takes a critical view of the jargon and fads in management contained in manifestos and mission statements and shows how these often obscure and mystify. He considers atmospherics, compulsory training, fundamentalist gurus, integrity tests, personality of organizations and uncertainty avoidance.

Author : Alan Webb
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780566085710
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk written by Alan Webb and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains samples of software packages.

Author : Robert D. G. Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987073709
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety Management Without the Mumbo Jumbo written by Robert D. G. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to manage safety within your organization? Are you sick of consultant and academic jargon about safety management? If so, here is your answer."Safety Management without the Mumbo Jumbo" is a book about how to manage safety in any business. The book demystifies safety management. Simple explanations and anecdotes make this book an interesting read for anyone who has an interest in or who is responsible for safety. Rob avoids what he calls, "consultant and academic Yuk-speak"."One of Rob's most enduring traits, and indeed that which makes him so perfectly suited to authoring such a publication, is his uncanny ability to explain in simple terms highly complex and technical issues." (Mr Ron Bartsch BA, BSc, LLB, LLM, Dip Ed, former head of Safety Qantas Airways, Visiting Senior Fellow UNSW, author of Aviation Law in Australia 3rd Edition, and Managing Director of Avlaw)This book provides the basics with plenty of interesting anecdotes about safety management which are clear and simple to understand. Read this book and apply the principles and safety will improve in your business, whether it is large or small.You will discover:The key elements of a safety management system.The importance of people to good safety management.How to work with your organization to build a great safety culture.Plenty of inexpensive ideas and tips to improve safety within your business.Safety is very important. Rob has guided hundreds of people to improved safety. His straight talk will help you too.

Author : Francis Wheen
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786723521
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World written by Francis Wheen and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2005-07-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What characterizes our era? Cults, quacks, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo, that's what. In How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, Francis Wheen brilliantly laments the extraordinary rise of superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria. From Middle Eastern fundamentalism to the rise of lotteries, astrology to mysticism, poststructuralism to the Third Way, Wheen shows that there has been a pervasive erosion of Enlightenment values, which have been displaced by nonsense. And no country has a more vivid parade of the bogus and bizarre than the one founded to embody Enlightenment values: the USA. In turn comic, indignant, outraged, and just plain baffled by the idiocy of it all, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World is a masterful depiction of the absurdity of our times and a plea that we might just think a little more and believe a little less.

Author : Darby C. Stapp
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759101050
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tribal Cultural Resource Management written by Darby C. Stapp and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stapp worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon, and Burney with the US Department of Energy at the Hanford nuclear site in southeastern Washington State. They share their experiences of 25 years as cultural brokers, mediating between native and European cultures to protect, preserve, and make accessible the cultural resources that are essential to native peoples and their ancestral way of life. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Neil Flanagan
Publisher : Woodslane Press
ISBN 13 : 1925403009
Total Pages : 1565 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Management Essentials written by Neil Flanagan and published by Woodslane Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 1565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Management Essentials is the most comprehensive book about management available. This invaluable reference covers all topics essential to senior managers, front-line managers and supervisors. Hundreds of step-by-step solutions are presented in a uniquely accessible structure, along with proven leadership tactics and expert management tips. Discover everything that the Australian manager needs to know in order to manage and lead effectively in the workplace.

Author : Vesa Ristikangas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351244094
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stellar Management Teams written by Vesa Ristikangas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management teams at all levels, and individual team members in particular, are often disengaged and disconnected from the management function itself. Statements such as, "we lack common goals or they are unclear", "I have no influence", "I am not listened to nor taken into account", and "I do not feel valued – actually, nobody does", are commonplace. The authors argue this is because we have been entrenched in an era of guru leadership but that it must come to an end if our management teams are to rise to the top. An individual is not capable of controlling the complicated system of an organization, with its countless variables, especially in conjunction with the rapid change in both the economy and market forces, which are unpredictable and uncontrollable. No matter how talented the individual, no one person is in a position to manage this complex system alone – not even a guru leader. The authors contend that what is needed now are resilient trendsetters who will bring about a new era of top-performing teams that together form a "collective guru", which they refer to as a Stellar Management Team. In this book, the reader undertakes a metaphorical journey to the stars, which symbolizes top-level interaction and collaboration. The journey is the development from an ordinary management team into a Stellar Management Team, which elevates its operation up to a new level of performance and success.

Author : Adrian Furnham
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137273860
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engaging Manager written by Adrian Furnham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where information must be in short bursts to get traction, be that binary code or sound bites, it is great to have key lessons from the real world of management delivered so effectively and succinctly and in a way that together forms a roadmap for personal and professional success. This book offers an engaging and witty look into the world of being an engaging manager. Based on strong research, this book offers a substantial introduction to the joy of management.

Author : Mario Fernando
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847208614
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Leadership in the Entrepreneurial Business written by Mario Fernando and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well informed, insightful and comprehensive study, Mario Fernando critically explores the complex and multiform interplay of management theory and practice, personal biographies, theologies of faith and cultural dynamics in order to elaborate and advance a coherent theory of spiritual leadership. George Gotsis and Zoe Kortezi, Entrepreneurship and Innovation In this example of science and theory meeting emerging reality, Mario Fernando delves into the complex dimensions of the interplay of the science of management, theologies of faith, and the dynamics of culture to first understand and then construct and advance a theory of spiritual leadership. With real world insights and reflections from himself and others, he addresses theory to practice implications and cautions against creating just another fad. This insightful and thought-provoking book provides a timely read and focus for reflection for organizational leaders concerned with success in the new age economy and global society, and who seek a path to understand their own personal and pragmatic spiritual leadership grounding. Gary D. Geroy, Colorado State University, US The book will be an important contribution to the literature and will certainly open up some new avenues of research and inquiry. Ralph L. Piedmont, Loyola College in Maryland, US Although interest in workplace spirituality continues to soar, the literature and empirical research on non-Western, non-Christian spirituality in entrepreneurship and leadership is almost non-existent. Mario Fernando s unique study fills the gap in the literature, exploring cross-cultural and religious distinctions of the contemporary meaning and enactment of spirituality in organizations. Case studies of thirteen influential, spiritually motivated Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Muslim entrepreneurs are used to explore the significant impact of religion upon the management and leadership of an organization. The book concludes that although each entrepreneur s outward practice of spiritual leadership conformed to personal religious beliefs, these practices had two common aims: a connection with self, others and/or an ultimate reality, and a need to direct and motivate self and/or others to develop an organizational culture founded on a sense of shared community. This unique and fascinating work will strongly appeal to entrepreneurship, leadership and business and management researchers and scholars with a particular interest in the interplay between entrepreneurship and spiritual leadership.

Author : Jeffrey L. Brewer
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612495524
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods of IT Project Management written by Jeffrey L. Brewer and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods of IT Project Management (Third Edition) is built around the latest version of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and covers best practices unique to the IT field. It is designed for use in graduate, advanced undergraduate, and professional IT project management courses to prepare students for success in the IT field, and to prepare them to pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam given by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the world's leading certification in the field of project management. Unlike other project management texts, Methods of IT Project Management follows the IT project life cycle, from overview and initiation to execution, control, and closing. An enterprise-scale IT project (macro-case study) runs through the entire text. Each section presents mini-cases based on the larger case and focuses on new concepts presented in each section. Readers gain practical knowledge of IT project management workflows, at scale, while building technical knowledge and skills required to pass the PMP. Mini-case studies encourage deep retention, prompt rich in-class discussion, and challenge more advanced students and professionals alike. Unique skills covered can be put directly into practice. An appendix presents practice study questions and advice on preparing for and passing the PMP exam. The revised third edition includes expanded coverage of agile system development methodologies, leadership and negotiation skills, and process maturity models.