| Description |
xxiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Replacing leadership with stewardship; Choosing patnership over patriarchy; Choosing adventure over safety; Choosing service over self-interest; Defining the stewardship contract; Upsetting expectations: the emotional work of stewardship; Redesigning management practices and structures; Rethinking the role of staff functions; Financial practices: creating accountability with self-control; Human resources: ending the practice of paternalism; Compensation and performance evaluation: overturning the class system; Cosmetic reform: when the disease becomes the cure; Recreating our organization through stewardship; Cynics, victims and bystanders; Choosing freedom, service, and adventure |
| Summary |
Block presents models of stewardship, both for entire companies and for individuals, to produce reforms in such areas as human resource practices, performance appraisal, and the role of staff groups |
| Analysis |
Industrial management |
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Industries Social aspects |
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Management and Business Administration |
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Industrial management |
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Management methods |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available online via the World Wide Web, by subscription to Books24x7 (BusinessPro) |
| Subject |
Industrial management.
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Industries -- Social aspects.
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Management.
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Organizational change.
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Organization and Administration.
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Organizational Innovation.
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Personnel Management.
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Ethics, Business.
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Industry.
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Leadership.
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Organization and Administration.
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Organizational Innovation.
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Power (Psychology)
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| Author |
Block, Peter.
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Books24x7, Inc.
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| LC no. |
93006597 |
| ISBN |
1881052281 (recycled, acid-free paper) |
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1881052869 (paperback) |
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