Managerial dilemmas exploiting paradox for strategic leadership - Storey, John (John Wiley & Sons, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252) and index
Managerial Dilemmas: Exploiting Paradox for Strategic Leadership; Contents; Preface; List of case o rganizations; About the authors; Part 1: INTRODUCTION; 1: Exploiting dilemmas and paradoxes through a new mode of leadership; 2: The nature of dilemma and paradox; Part 2: THE SIX DILEMMAS AND PARADOXES; 3: Dilemmas and p aradoxes of strategy; 4: Dilemmas and paradoxes of organizational form and structuring; 5: Dilemmas and paradoxes of performance management; 6: Dilemmas and paradoxes of innovation; 7: Dilemmas and paradoxes of managers' knowledge
More than ever, today's managers are beset by successive, fashionable, prescriptions concerning the structure, dynamics, processes and direction of the modern corporation. Unlike their earlier counterparts, the current areas of interest are less clearly associated with Human Resource issues (HR policies, processes, cultures and so on) and far more closely linked with issues more explicitly central to business activity and business performance. Managers need to develop an understanding of innovation, off-shoring, outsourcing, inter-organizational arrangements and other aspects of supply chain m