Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work by M. Addleson (English) Paperback Book

Description: Beyond Management by M. Addleson Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it. Author Biography MARK ADDLESON is an Associate Professor of Management Economics at George Mason University School of Public Policy, Washington D.C., USA. Before joining George Mason University in 1994, Professor Addleson taught for more than 20 years in his native South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrands Graduate School of Business Administration, where he was head of the General Management program. From 1989 to 1994, Professor Addleson was a director of Econometrix, a firm of consultants with clients across all sectors of the economy. He has consulted with many companies and public and non-profit organizations both in the United States and South Africa. Professor Addleson publishes regularly in academic journals and has authored books, newspaper articles, and papers presented at local and overseas conferences. He has been awarded numerous research grants and the Wits Business Schools award for teaching excellence. Table of Contents The End of the Line Getting into Work Organizing: Getting the Beat Jeffs Journal: Project Work on the Inside Left-Brain Management and Right-Brain Organizing Knowledge-Work in Close-Up The Work of Organizing with Giant Hairballs and Wicked Problems Tools are the Empty Heart of Management or Why Strategic Initiatives Fail Practices that Break the Mould with Agility and Care In Search of Low-Control Organizing Practices: Community, Care, Cooperation, and Commitment Taking On the Work of Organizing Conversations for Aligning: Openness, Commitments, and Accountability Organizing Moves Handling Hierarchy and More Good Work Wanted Review In Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work, Mark Addleson goes beyond the easy platitudes of most authors on collaborative work to dig deep into the underpinnings of exactly how people work together in peer-to-peer relationships and networks. From this foundation his suggestions are well grounded in research and practice, yet are practical and straightforward for managers and leaders to implement. He incisively drives home why the world of work must be understood as socially driven. His examples and pragmatic suggestions show how to use the way people naturally network and self organize to speed sense making, improve decisions and foster creativity. Well done! - Verna Allee, President ValueNet Works, author Value Networks and the True Nature of Collaboration. Mark Addlesons Beyond Management shows us not only why the hierarchical bureaucracy of traditional management is expensive, inefficient and at odds with the needs of todays organization but also how knowledge-work canbe organized to establish the needed values of responsibility, collaboration, imagination, collaboration, flexibility, and accountability. - Steve Denning, consultant and author of The Leaders Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. Beyond Management charts the new world of knowledge work, in which hierarchical organizations have been replaced by flexible, self-organizing networks. It is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand the nature of the contemporary workplace. -Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, author The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution Exploring the social, creative, and cooperative nature of knowledge work, Beyond Management offers a deeper understanding of how to achieve organizational success. It is required reading for those who need to navigate the new world of work. - Janine R. Wedel, Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy, author Shadow Elite: How the Worlds New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market Few books, much less those about management, look at the world of work adopting the view from practice. This one [Beyond Management] does. And it finds that the practice of knowledge workers is so fundamentally about caring, meaning making, and organizing as social activities that the traditional division of labor between those who organize and those who implement has become obsolete and indeed counterproductive. The challenge? Organizations have to rediscover the practice of organizing from the ground up. - Etienne Wenger, Researcher, consultant, and author Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Promotional Springer Book Archives Review Quote In Beyond Management: Taking Charge at Work, Mark Addleson goes beyond the easy platitudes of most authors on collaborative work to dig deep into the underpinnings of exactly how people work together in peer-to-peer relationships and networks. From this foundation his suggestions are well grounded in research and practice, yet are practical and straightforward for managers and leaders to implement. He incisively drives home why the world of work must be understood as socially driven. His examples and pragmatic suggestions show how to use the way people naturally network and self organize to speed sense making, improve decisions and foster creativity. Well done! - Verna Allee, President ValueNet Works, author Value Networks and the True Nature of Collaboration. Mark Addlesons Beyond Management shows us not only why the hierarchical bureaucracy of traditional management is expensive, inefficient and at odds with the needs of todays organization but also how knowledge-work can be organized to establish the needed values of responsibility, collaboration, imagination, collaboration, flexibility, and accountability. - Steve Denning, consultant and author of The Leaders Guide to Radical Management: Reinventing the Workplace for the 21st Century. Beyond Management charts the new world of knowledge work, in which hierarchical organizations have been replaced by flexible, self-organizing networks. It is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand the nature of the contemporary workplace. -Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, author The End of History and the Last Man and The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution Exploring the social, creative, and cooperative nature of knowledge work, Beyond Management offers a deeper understanding of how to achieve organizational success. It is required reading for those who need to navigate the new world of work. - Janine R. Wedel, Professor, George Mason University School of Public Policy, author Shadow Elite: How the Worlds New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market Few books, much less those about management, look at the world of work adopting the view from practice. This one [Beyond Management] does. And it finds that the practice of knowledge workers is so fundamentally about caring, meaning making, and organizing as social activities that the traditional division of labor between those who organize and those who implement has become obsolete and indeed counterproductive. The challenge? Organizations have to rediscover the practice of organizing from the ground up. - Etienne Wenger, Researcher, consultant, and author Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Details ISBN1349338923 Author M. Addleson Language English ISBN-10 1349338923 ISBN-13 9781349338924 Format Paperback Pages 276 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title BEYOND MGMT 2011/E Media Book DEWEY 658.4 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Taking Charge at Work Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations XII, 276 p. AU Release Date 2011-09-22 NZ Release Date 2011-09-22 UK Release Date 2011-09-22 Edition Description 1st ed. 2011 Year 2011 Publication Date 2011-09-22 Alternative 9780230308169 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137708666;

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