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Author(s): Ralph Stacey
ISBN(s): 9780415531184, 0415531187
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.32 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415531187

ISBN 13: 9780415531184

Author: Ralph Stacey

Many of today’s books on the tools and techniques of leadership and management provide descriptions of long lists for use in decision-making, leading, coaching and project management. This book takes a completely different approach. It contests the claims that the tools and techniques are based on evidence and explains why human activities of leading and managing are simply not amenable to scientific proof and consequently, why long-term futures of organizations are unpredictable. The book undertakes a critical exploration of just what these tools and techniques are about; showing that while they may lead to competent performance they cannot go further to expert performance because expertise involves going beyond rules and procedures. Ralph Stacey investigates the many questions that are thrown up as a result of this new approach. Questions such as: How do we apply this new way of thinking? What are the practical tools and techniques it gives us? What is the role of leaders in an unpredictable world? How does complexity affect the way organizations are structured and function? This book will be relevant to students on courses and modules that deal with leadership, decision-making and organizational development and behaviour as well as professional leaders and managers who want to develop their own understanding and techniques.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The theory of complex responsive processes: understanding organizations as patterns of interaction between people

Chapter 3 Understanding organizing activities as the game: implications for leadership and management tools and techniques

Chapter 4 The leadership and management tools and techniques of instrumental rationality: rules and step-by-step procedures

Chapter 5 The limitations of the tools and techniques of instrumental rationality: incompatibility with expert performance

Chapter 6 The leadership and management techniques of disciplinary power: surveillance and normalization

Chapter 7 Taking the techniques of disciplinary power to the extreme: domination and coercive persuasion

Chapter 8 Institutions and the techniques of leadership and management: habits, rules and routines

Chapter 9 The leadership and management ‘techniques’ of practical judgement: reflexive inquiry, improvisation and political adroitness

Chapter 10 Conclusion

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