Describes the benefits and problems of outsourcing information systems, looks at three case studies, and tells how to avoid common problems (view table of contents)

Product Description: Managing in a multicultural setting can be very challenging. Culture strongly influences how people behave and how they understand the behavior of others, and cultures vary in the behaviors they find proper and acceptable. This report--which integrates work done by experts in the fields of anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, and international business management with CCL's perspective on how executives learn from experience--describes the cultural values, often unconsciously held, that underlie work in the U...read more

Product Description: With a fresh new perspective on making "WORK EFFECTIVENESS" comes first, Sayles demonstrates that the real challenge of management is to get things done right. Every manager can be and should be a project manager.

Product Description: Organizations today operate in an increasingly complex and changing world. What are the new skills that must emerge if leaders are to successfully meet the challenges created by this turbulence? The author, drawing on his years of experience in studying organizations and on the insights generated at a conference that brought together a select group of senior executives and organizational researchers to consider this question, offers his own unique perspective...read more

Argues that corporate success now depends more on implementation and execution than on strategic planning, and looks at actual cases of managers making systems adjust to changing situations (view table of contents)

Product Description: Managing Large Systems examines a range of human, organizational, and managerial challenges associated with large systems. Special attention is given to the behavioral relationships among scientists and engineers, business and technical managers, sponsor organizations and their contractors, business and government officials, and line and functional managers...read more

Product Description: Book by Sayles, Leonard R.

The new wave of organizational innovations involves new types of arrangements between individuals and corporations. It is likely to continue to produce new organizational forms, spanning the entire range of combinations of markets and hierarchies and involving complex, sometimes protracted negotiation processes between individuals and corporate entities. Such negotiation processes, we believe, will be an increasingly pervasive aspect of corporate life and an important mechanism for facilitating the new integration of individualism and big business through corporate entrepreneurship. (view table of contents)

Considers the principles and practices of the corporation personnel function in the content of the complex social, political, legal, and economic environments

Product Description: Great managing book!

Product Description: Focuses both the methods and findings of the behavioral sciences on the peristing human problems of administering modern organizations.