Book description
89 management theories from the world’s best management thinkers – the fast, focussed and express route to success.
Table of contents
- COVER
- TITLE PAGE
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THIS BOOK
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SECTION 1: HOW TO MANAGE PEOPLE
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 1: FAYOL’S 14 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT: PART 1 – STRUCTURE AND CONTROL
- THEORY 2: FAYOL’S 14 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT: PART 2 – WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
- THEORY 3: TAYLOR AND SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT
- THEORY 4: MAYO AND THE HAWTHORNE EXPERIMENTS
- THEORY 5: URWICK’S TEN PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
- THEORY 6: DRUCKER ON THE FUNCTIONS OF MANAGEMENT
- THEORY 7: MCGREGOR’S X AND Y THEORY
- THEORY 8: PETERS AND WATERMAN’S THEORY OF MANAGEMENT
- THEORY 9: COVEY’S SEVEN HABITS™ OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
- THEORY 10: MANAGEMENT BY WALKING ABOUT (MBWA)
- A FINAL WORD ON MANAGEMENT THEORIES
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SECTION 2: HOW TO LEAD PEOPLE
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 11: TRAIT THEORY
- THEORY 12: THE MICHIGAN AND OHIO STUDIES – BASIC STYLE THEORY
- THEORY 13: BLAKE AND MOUTON’S LEADERSHIP GRID
- THEORY 14: ADAIR’S ACTION-CENTRED LEADERSHIP
- THEORY 15: FIEDLER’S CONTINGENCY THEORY
- THEORY 16: HERSEY AND BLANCHARD’S SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY
- THEORY 17: BURNS’ TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY
- THEORY 18: DANSEREAU, GRAEN AND HAGA’S LEADER MEMBER EXCHANGE (LMX) THEORY
- THEORY 19: HOUSE’S CHARISMATIC LEADERSHIP THEORY
- THEORY 20: BURNS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP (TL) THEORY
- THEORY 21: BASS AND TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP (TL) THEORY
- THEORY 22: BENNIS AND NANUS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP (TL) THEORY
- A FINAL WORD ON LEADERSHIP THEORIES
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SECTION 3: HOW TO MOTIVATE YOUR STAFF
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 23: MASLOW’S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS THEORY
- THEORY 24: ALDERFER’S EXISTENCE, RELATEDNESS AND GROWTH (ERG) THEORY
- THEORY 25: MCCLELLAND’S ACHIEVEMENT AND ACQUIRED NEEDS THEORY
- THEORY 26: HERZBERG’S MOTIVATION AND HYGIENE THEORY
- THEORY 27: ADAMS’ EQUITY THEORY
- THEORY 28: VROOM’S EXPECTANCY THEORY
- THEORY 29: THE HACKMAN AND OLDHAM JOB CHARACTERISTIC MODEL
- THEORY 30: ERNST’S OK CORRAL MODEL
- THEORY 31: BERNE’S THEORY OF TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS
- A FINAL WORD ON MOTIVATION THEORIES
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SECTION 4: HOW TO BUILD AND MANAGE TEAMS
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 32: BELBIN’S TEAM ROLES
- THEORY 33: MACCOBY’S GAMESMAN THEORY
- THEORY 34: LIKERT’S THEORY OF TEAM MANAGEMENT STYLES
- THEORY 35: DREXLER/SIBBET TEAM PERFORMANCE MODEL
- THEORY 36: HOMAN’S THEORY OF GROUP FORMATION
- THEORY 37: TUCKMAN’S GROUP DEVELOPMENT SEQUENCE MODEL
- THEORY 38: WHEELAN’S INTEGRATED MODEL OF GROUP DEVELOPMENT
- THEORY 39: LOCKE’S GOAL SETTING THEORY
- A FINAL WORD ON TEAM THEORIES
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SECTION 5: HOW TO ANALYSE ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 40: HANDY’S MODEL OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
- THEORY 41: DEAL AND KENNEDY’S RISK AND FEEDBACK MODEL
- THEORY 42: MORGAN’S ORGANISATIONAL METAPHORS
- THEORY 43: GRAVES’ CULTURAL LEADERSHIP THEORY
- THEORY 44: SCHEIN’S THREE LEVELS OF ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE
- THEORY 45: JOHNSON AND SCHOLES’ CULTURAL WEB
- THEORY 46: HOFSTEDE’S SIX CROSS-ORGANISATIONAL DIMENSIONS
- THEORY 47: HARGREAVES AND BALKANISED CULTURES
- A FINAL WORD ON ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE THEORIES
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SECTION 6: HOW TO MANAGE CHANGE
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 48: KÜBLER-ROSS’S CHANGE CYCLE
- THEORY 49: SHEWHART’S PLAN–DO–CHECK–ACT (PDCA) MODEL
- THEORY 50: LEWIN’S UNFREEZE–CHANGE–REFREEZE MODEL
- THEORY 51: LEWIN’S FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS
- THEORY 52: KOTTER’S EIGHT-STEP APPROACH TO CHANGE
- THEORY 53: MOSS KANTER AND CHANGE MASTERS
- THEORY 54: BURKE-LITWIN’S DRIVERS FOR CHANGE
- THEORY 55: EGAN’S SHADOW-SIDE THEORY
- A FINAL WORD ON CHANGE MANAGEMENT THEORIES
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SECTION 7: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 56: JOHNSON AND SCHOLES’ SEVEN STAGES OF STRATEGIC PLANNING
- THEORY 57: ANSOFF’S MODERNIST APPROACH TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- THEORY 58: PETERS AND WATERMAN’S POST-MODERNIST APPROACH TO STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
- THEORY 59: QUINN, HAMEL AND PRAHALAD: THE NEW MODERNIST APPROACH
- THEORY 60: THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP MATRIX MODEL
- THEORY 61: THE MCKINSEY 7-S FRAMEWORK MODEL
- THEORY 62: JOHNSON, SCHOLES AND WITTINGHAM’S STAKEHOLDER MAPPING THEORY
- THEORY 63: PORTER’S VALUE CHAIN THEORY
- THEORY 64: PORTER’S FIVE FORCES THEORY
- THEORY 65: SWOT ANALYSIS
- THEORY 66: PEST/PESTLE ANALYSIS
- THEORY 67: SCENARIO PLANNING
- A FINAL WORD ON STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT THEORIES
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SECTION 8: HOW TO MANAGE QUALITY
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 68: DEMING’S SEVEN DEADLY DISEASES
- THEORY 69: JURAN’S QUALITY TRILOGY
- THEORY 70: CROSBY’S MATURITY GRID
- THEORY 71: PETERS, WATERMAN AND AUSTIN’S EXCELLENCE MODEL
- THEORY 72: ISHIKAWA’S FISHBONE MODEL
- THEORY 73: IMAI’S KAIZEN 5S HOUSEKEEPING THEORY
- THEORY 74: THE BENCHMARKING MATRIX
- THEORY 75: THE EXCELLENCE MODEL
- A FINAL WORD ON QUALITY MANAGEMENT THEORIES
- SECTION 9: HOW TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY, POWER AND INFLUENCE
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SECTION 10: THE BEST OF THE REST – A MISCELLANY OF GREAT IDEAS FOR MANAGERS
- INTRODUCTION
- THEORY 81: THE PARETO PRINCIPLE
- THEORY 82: THE EISENHOWER PRINCIPLE
- THEORY 83: THOMAS AND KILMANN’S CONFLICT RESOLUTION MODEL
- THEORY 84: GRINDER AND BANDLER’S NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING (NLP) FILTERING THEORY
- THEORY 85: GOLEMAN’S THEORY OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
- THEORY 86: BOYD’S OODA LOOP
- THEORY 87: LUFT AND INGRAM’S JOHARI WINDOWS
- THEORY 88: SMART GOALS
- THEORY 89: THE MCNAMARA FALLACY
- A FINAL WORD ON THE BEST OF THE REST
- THE ONE THEORY THAT SHALL RULE THEM ALL, AND WHY WE PICKED IT
- A VERY FINAL WORD
- FURTHER READING
- INDEX
- IMPRINT
Product information
- Title: The Little Book of Big Management Theories
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2013
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 9780273788775
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