December 2014
Beginner
480 pages
118h 48m
English
The preceding material in this appendix provides a history of management by discussing several different approaches to management. Each approach developed over a number of years and focused on the particular needs of the organizations at the time.
In more recent times, managers seem to be searching for new approaches to management.47 Fueling this search is a range of issues modern managers face that their historical counterparts did not. These issues include a concern about the competitive decline of Western firms, the accelerating pace of technological change, the sophistication of customers, and the increasing emphasis on globalization.
A new approach to management that is evolving to handle this new range ...