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Management Guru Ideas and the 12 Secrets of their Success

Management Guru Ideas and the 12 Secrets of their Success Summarizes part of the findings of the authors research into thepopularity of management ideas. Taking a historical perspective, the sixfamilies of popular management ideas of the last century bureaucracy, scientific management, classical management, humanrelations, neohuman relations and guru theory were identified.Following an analysis of these ideas, 12 recurring features which arefound in the majority of them were discovered. These features werelabelled communicability, changeable human nature, individual focus,control, steps and principles, universal application, applicability,authorization, selfconfirmation, unitary perspective,contributionownership potential and leadership focus. Defines anddescribes each characteristic briefly, and relates it to the actionwhich management consultants need to take if they are successfully toinfluence managers to adopt their ideas and prescriptions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Leadership & Organization Development Journal Emerald Publishing

Management Guru Ideas and the 12 Secrets of their Success

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Emerald Publishing
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0143-7739
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Summarizes part of the findings of the authors research into thepopularity of management ideas. Taking a historical perspective, the sixfamilies of popular management ideas of the last century bureaucracy, scientific management, classical management, humanrelations, neohuman relations and guru theory were identified.Following an analysis of these ideas, 12 recurring features which arefound in the majority of them were discovered. These features werelabelled communicability, changeable human nature, individual focus,control, steps and principles, universal application, applicability,authorization, selfconfirmation, unitary perspective,contributionownership potential and leadership focus. Defines anddescribes each characteristic briefly, and relates it to the actionwhich management consultants need to take if they are successfully toinfluence managers to adopt their ideas and prescriptions.

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Leadership & Organization Development Journal – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 1, 1992

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