Handbook of Organizational and Managerial Wisdom by Eric H. Kessler,James Bailey

By Eric H. Kessler,James Bailey

"A tremendous and complete advent to the main seminal element of management: knowledge. the range of the readings and knowledge of the authors make this a most unusual and useful addition to the administration canon."

Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of administration, collage of Southern California and writer of On changing into a Leader

"This marvelous compilation proves that administration is as a lot paintings as technological know-how, and that deep pondering can tell and encourage perform to be extra humane, moral, and, definite, wise."

—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard company tuition Professor and best-selling writer of Confidence: How successful Streaks and wasting Streaks commence and End

"If you are going to forgive a pun, it is a clever e-book approximately organizational and managerial knowledge. It indicates what is attainable whilst a few of our greatest thinkers flip their collective recognition to such well timed topics as EQ, negotiation, international politics, and person and organizational ethics."

Steve Kerr, Chief studying Officer, Goldman Sachs, and previous President of the Academy of Management

"One of the 'most promising' imminent administration books."

—EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT

"To wade into the subject knowledge is to determine organizing another way. To wade into this quantity is to work out knowledge otherwise. either sorts of attempt include a superb second of knowledge itself."

Karl E. Weick, Distinguished Professor of Organizational habit and Psychology,University of Michigan

Some fascinating concerns emerge whilst one perspectives businesses from a wisdom-based viewpoint. Does know-how advertise or inhibit knowledge? How do HR structures, organizational varieties, administration practices, and operational functions relate to knowledge? What are the moral and social dimensions of knowledge? What makes a sensible chief? Can knowledge be constructed and applied strategically? Do conceptions and manifestations of knowledge fluctuate throughout cultures? Can one train knowledge?

Editors Eric Kessler and James Bailey have produced a ground-breaking compendium of worldwide popular thinkers in the Handbook of Organizational and Managerial knowledge. This Handbook systematically explores the features of realizing, employing, and constructing organizational and managerial knowledge.

Key Features

  • Organizes knowledge round the 5 basic philosophical branches—logic, ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, and metaphysics
  • Applies knowledge in agencies and administration via overseas examples that synthesize a suite of useful ideas for teachers and practising managers
  • Offers a good choice of world-renowned students who supply profound insights relating to wisdom

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