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Format: 1 online resource (363 p.)

ISBN: 0-231-50414-4

Series Statement: Columbia Business School Publishing

Content: After twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crisis and in turnaround conditions, and having spent another two decades consulting, teaching, and writing, David K. Hurst has learned a great deal about organizations, how they function, and why they fail. Here, as a reflective practitioner, he crafts an extraordinary integration of management thought and practice. He adopts a systems perspective, using analogies drawn from nature, to illustrate his ideas and their practical application.This book is both for general readers unfamiliar with sophisticated management concept

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION What to Expect; PART I The Dimensions of Change; 1. Lost in Management Th ought; 2. Economics, Evolution, and Ecology; 3. Scale in Space and Time; 4. Why Wal-Mart's Growth Is like a Forest's; 5. The Ecocycle - Life, Death, and Renewal; 6. The Ecocycle in Human Organizations; PART II The Front Loop - Nothing Fails like Success; 7. Communities of Trust; 8. Logic and Power; 9. Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction; 10. The Product Life Cycle Meets the Ecocycle; 11. The Pathologies of Power; 12. The Onset of Crisis , PART III The Back Loop - From Crisis to Renewal13. Wisdom from the Scriptures; 14. Into the Wilderness; 15. Climbing the Mountain; 16. The Logic of Leadership; 17. The Complete Ecocycle; 18. Vice and Virtue; PART IV Staying in the Sweet Zone; 19. Tools and Settings in the Sweet Zone; 20. Power Tools and Settings - Instructions and Directions; 21. Management Tools and Settings - Rules and Incentives; 22. Leadership Tools and Settings = Images and Invitations; 23. Culture Tools and Settings - Custom and Convention; 24. Change in Depth; 25. Th e Design of Choice , 26. Lean - Th e Practice of "Both . . . And"27. Prescribed Burns: Context, Conflict, Crisis, and Creation; 28. Growing People; 29. Don't Throw the Past Away; PART IV A Brief Orientation and Field Guide; 30. Using the Ecocycle - Key Concepts and Questions; Notes; Bibliography; Index , English

Language: English

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Format: XV, 346 S. : , Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.

ISBN: 978-0-231-15970-8

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-50414-0

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

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Format: 1 online resource (468 p.) : , 10 figures

ISBN: 9780231504144 , 0-231-52842-6

Series Statement: Foundations of Social Work Knowledge Series

Content: Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities through social welfare, health and mental health, criminal justice, and educational services. David Austin begins with an examination of the historical development and distinctive characteristics of human service organizations, the variety of organizational and program structures at play, and the connection of individual service organizations with service delivery networks. He then examines of the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholder constituencies, including service users, service personnel (especially service professionals), funders, executives, and policy boards. The final two chapters discuss two organizational processes: accountability for effectiveness and dealing with organizational changes.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , FOREWORD -- , PREFACE -- , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- , 1. INTRODUCTION -- , 2. Human Service Organizations -- , 3. Stakeholder Constituencies -- , 4. Organizational Structure and Program Design -- , 5. Service Delivery Networks -- , 6. The User/Consumer Constituency -- , 7. Organized Professions and Human Service Organizations -- , 8. Legitimators and Funders -- , 9. The Human Service Executive -- , 10. Boards of Directors and Advisory Committees -- , 11. Accountability -- , 12. Dealing with Change -- , REFERENCES -- , INDEX , Issued also in print. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/aust10836