Managerial dilemmas: exploiting paradox for strategic leadership

More than ever, todays managers are beset by successive, fashionable, prescriptions concerning the structure, dynamics, processes and direction of the modern corporation. Unlike their earlier counterparts, the current areas of interest are less clearly associated with Human Resource issues (HR policies, processes, cultures and so on) and far more closely linked with issues more explicitly central to business activity and business performance. Managers need to develop an understanding of innovation, off-shoring, outsourcing, inter-organizational arrangements and other aspects of supply chain management. This book will assist executives and management students to make better sense of these different spheres of activity by exploring them in relation to each other. By helping them make sense of these ideas in relation to each other the book will also allow them to better assess if, and to see how, where and when, they could be of use. This is an invaluable guide to the most current management issues for advanced management undergraduates, MBAs and executives. This important bookby leading scholars in HRM challenges commonly held beliefs and misconceptions about the managers role. It presents a range of industry perspectives, focusing on the need for managers to make multi-dimensional choices in a complex world. An informed and engaging text, charting the key developments which affecttodays decision-making in private and public sectors Insights from practisingmanagers offer valuable lessons for the professional and academic alike.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-6027-8
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 19/06/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés