Global Comparative Management: A Functional Approach
Autor Ralph B. Edfelten Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2009
Global Comparative Management covers the United States, Latin America, Western Europe, Japan, and East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea). Each chapter includes a management section that focuses on region-specific topics, such as the managerial functions of planning, controlling, organizing, directing, and staffing in that region; CEO backgrounds, career paths, and pay scales; and higher-management education.
Key Features
- Broadens readers' worldviews through discussions of global contexts and experiences
- Synthesizes information from many sources, including academic research and contributions by practicing managers, consultants, and other professionals
- Explores two special topics: management-by-democracy (transcending several countries, regions, and eras) and management in a state-socialist system (the former Soviet Union), noting implications for contemporary capitalist settings
- Defines current cultural, economic, and political terminology
- Includes pertinent case studies and exercises, lists of terms and concepts, and study questions
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1412944708
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States
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Cuprins
1. Management; A Conceptual and Contextual Overview
Chapter Objectives
Conceptual/Historical Perspective
Global Context
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercises
2. American (U.S.) Management
Chapter Objectives
The U.S. Macro-Environment
The American (U.S.) Manager
U.S. Managerial Tendencies
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercises
Case: Board of Directors
3. West European Management
Chapter Objectives
The West European Macro-Environment
The West European Manager
European Management Perspective, Process, Practice
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercises
4. Soviet Socialist Management
Chapter Objectives
Soviet Polity, Economy and Culture
The Soviet Manager
The Management Process
Managerial Performance
Economic Reforms
Gorbachev Reform Initiatives
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercise
5. Management-By-Democracy; The Employee-Controlled Organization
Chapter Objectives
The Concept
Examples of Employee (or member) Control
Performance
Critical Success Factors
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercise
6. The Legacy of China
Chapter Objectives
The Chinese Macro-Environment
The Confucian-Zone Manager
Management Practice
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercises
7. Japanese Management; Tradition and Transition
Chapter Objectives
The Japanese Macro-Environment
The Japanese Manager
Japanese Management
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercises
8. Management in Latin America
Chapter Objectives
The Latin American Macro-Environment
The Latin American CEO
Latin American Management
Chapter Summary
Terms and Concepts
Study Questions
Exercises
9. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Descriere
The first current comprehensive treatment of comparative management available in a single-authored package, Global Comparative Management: A Functional Approach offers an interdisciplinary discussion of management functions, practices, patterns, and problems relating to a wide variety of national and regional settings. Author Ralph Edfelt places management concepts into temporal and contextual perspective, gives broad overviews of management theory, and describes global macroenvironmental trends. Readers will gain the knowledge and insight necessary for becoming effective managers, employees, and citizens in today's increasingly interdependent world.
Global Comparative Management covers the United States, Latin America, Western Europe, Japan, and East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea). Each chapter includes a management section that focuses on region-specific topics, such as the managerial functions of planning, controlling, organizing, directing, and staffing in that region; CEO backgrounds, career paths, and pay scales; and higher-management education.
Key Features
- Broadens readers' worldviews through discussions of global contexts and experiences
- Synthesizes information from many sources, including academic research and contributions by practicing managers, consultants, and other professionals
- Explores two special topics: management-by-democracy (transcending several countries, regions, and eras) and management in a state-socialist system (the former Soviet Union), noting implications for contemporary capitalist settings
- Defines current cultural, economic, and political terminology
- Includes pertinent case studies and exercises, lists of terms and concepts, and study questions
Designed for students and practitioners of management and international business, Global Comparative Management can be used as a stand-alone text or as supplementary reading in Comparative Management courses. It is also an ideal supplement for Introduction to Management, International Management, and Global Studies courses.