ISBN: 9798190599299 - a critical dictionary of management terms: origins, transformations, and misuses (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Critical Dictionary of Management Terms takes seventy-five words that shape decisions inside organizations and traces each one from where it started to what it means now. Every entry explains the problem the term was invented to solve, what got lost or reversed as it travelled from research or practice into general business use, and how to use it well anyway. The terms are drawn from across management as it is actually practised, including strategy, organizational behaviour, marketing, operations, finance, and accounting, because the vocabulary does not stay in the department that produced it. Each entry ends with a plain-English translation of what the term usually means when someone says it out loud in a meeting. The book is written for practising managers who want to know what they are agreeing to, and for students who will shortly encounter all of these words presented as settled truths. Readers will finish it able to tell a concept from its slogan, to spot the moment a word starts shifting a burden from the organization onto a person, and to ask the four or five questions that separate an idea worth using from an idea worth surviving.…