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A Management Doctrine; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Organizations and Organizational Success; 1 Organizations and Management; 1.1 A Society of Organizations; 1.2 The Idea of the Organization; 1.3 The Responsibility of Managers; 1.4 The Idea of Value Creation; 1.5 Organizational Success; References; 2 Management Methods; 2.1 Engineering Views; 2.2 Bottom Up or Top Down?; 2.3 Nursing Views; 2.4 Social Views; 2.5 Management Fashions; 2.6 Some Success Recipes; 2.7 Evidence-Based Management; 2.8 Process Organizations; 2.9 No Winning Formula; 2.10 Belief in Methods; References
3 Management Theory3.1 Management Education; 3.2 A Crave for Theory; 3.3 Three Questions; 3.4 Normative Theory; 3.5 Ambiguous Theory; 3.6 Debatable Success; References; Managerial Work; 4 Economy, Efficiency, Effectiveness; 4.1 The Idea of Scarce Resources; 4.2 The Idea of Efficiency; 4.3 The Idea of Effectiveness; 4.4 Against Effectiveness; References; 5 Decisions; 5.1 Formal Rationality; 5.2 Unrealistic Presumptions; 5.3 Heuristics; 5.4 Rules and Routines; 5.5 Imitation; 5.6 Experiments; 5.7 Negotiations and Compromises; 5.8 Implementation; 5.9 Decisions as Actions
5.10 Post Hoc RationalizationReferences; 6 A Future Orientation; 6.1 Belief in Strategy; 6.2 Belief in Budgets; 6.3 Belief in Calculations; 6.4 Belief in Numbers; References; 7 Responsibility; 7.1 The Organizational Imperative; 7.2 The Idea of Legitimacy; 7.3 Social and Organizational Ethics; 7.4 Social and Organizational Ethics Within Organizations; 7.5 Social and Organizational Ethics in Organizational Interaction; 7.6 Approaches to Global Inequality; 7.7 Responsibility in a Society of Organizations; References; The Doctrine; 8 Gaps; 8.1 Four Gaps; 8.2 The Idea of Leadership; References
9 Individuals as Organizations9.1 The Modern Individual; 9.2 Attitudes to Self; 9.3 Attitudes to the Body; 9.4 Attitudes to Time; 9.5 Attitudes to Numbers; 9.6 Attitudes to Rationality; 9.7 Attitudes to Others; References; 10 The Management Doctrine; 10.1 Three Sides of Management; 10.2 Between Ought and Is; 10.3 Fayolist Perceptions; 10.4 The Beauty of the Doctrine; 10.5 The Future of the Organization Society; References
3 Management Theory3.1 Management Education; 3.2 A Crave for Theory; 3.3 Three Questions; 3.4 Normative Theory; 3.5 Ambiguous Theory; 3.6 Debatable Success; References; Managerial Work; 4 Economy, Efficiency, Effectiveness; 4.1 The Idea of Scarce Resources; 4.2 The Idea of Efficiency; 4.3 The Idea of Effectiveness; 4.4 Against Effectiveness; References; 5 Decisions; 5.1 Formal Rationality; 5.2 Unrealistic Presumptions; 5.3 Heuristics; 5.4 Rules and Routines; 5.5 Imitation; 5.6 Experiments; 5.7 Negotiations and Compromises; 5.8 Implementation; 5.9 Decisions as Actions
5.10 Post Hoc RationalizationReferences; 6 A Future Orientation; 6.1 Belief in Strategy; 6.2 Belief in Budgets; 6.3 Belief in Calculations; 6.4 Belief in Numbers; References; 7 Responsibility; 7.1 The Organizational Imperative; 7.2 The Idea of Legitimacy; 7.3 Social and Organizational Ethics; 7.4 Social and Organizational Ethics Within Organizations; 7.5 Social and Organizational Ethics in Organizational Interaction; 7.6 Approaches to Global Inequality; 7.7 Responsibility in a Society of Organizations; References; The Doctrine; 8 Gaps; 8.1 Four Gaps; 8.2 The Idea of Leadership; References
9 Individuals as Organizations9.1 The Modern Individual; 9.2 Attitudes to Self; 9.3 Attitudes to the Body; 9.4 Attitudes to Time; 9.5 Attitudes to Numbers; 9.6 Attitudes to Rationality; 9.7 Attitudes to Others; References; 10 The Management Doctrine; 10.1 Three Sides of Management; 10.2 Between Ought and Is; 10.3 Fayolist Perceptions; 10.4 The Beauty of the Doctrine; 10.5 The Future of the Organization Society; References