Guide to the Management Gurus

Shortcuts to the Ideas of Leading Management Thinkers

Carol Kennedy

Publisher: Century, 1991 , 174 pages

ISBN: 0-7126-5645-6

Synopsis:

Toggle Synopsis

This book is the first easy-reference guide to the works and theories of leading management thinkers, from Henri Fayol and F. W. Taylor to Tom Peters and Michael Porter. It provides a concise introduction to the writings of 34 influential gurus, with brief biographies and lists of they key books.

Guide to the Management Gurus is not only for ambitious managers and business students but for anyone interested in how the ideas that shaped our business culture evolved, from 'scientific management' and time-and-motion study at the turn of the centurty to current beliefs in empowerment of employees and flexible structures for managing change.

Table of Contents:

Toggle Table of Contents

1. John Adair
   Action-Centred Leadership: how Task, Team and Individual Overlap
2. H. Igor Ansoff
   The theory and practice of strategic planning
3. Chris Argyris
   Developing individual potential within the organization
4. Chester Barnard
   Managing the values of the organization
5. Warren Bennis
   'Managers do things right. Leaders do the right thing.'
6. Edward de Bono
   Lateral thinking: 'the generation of new ideas and the escape from old ones.'
7. Alfred D. Chandler
   Structure follows strategy in organizations
8. W. Edwards Deming
   The key to quality: reducing variation
9. Peter Drucker
   Primary tasks for effective managers
10. Henri Fayol
    Five foundation stones of modern management
11. Charles Handy
    The future of work and organizations
12. Frederick Herzberg
    'Motivation' and 'maintenance' factors in job satisfaction
13. John Humble
    Management By Objectives as a practical methodology
14. Elliott Jaques
    Psychological and social factors in group behaviour
15. Joseph M. Juran
    Company-wide quality cannot be delegated
16. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    The 'post-entrepreneurial' corporation: empowering individuals as a force for change
17. Theodore Levitt
    Marketing as a key to successful business management
18. Rensis Likert
    How leadership styles link with business performance
19. Douglas McGregor
    Theory X and Theory Y: authritarian vs patricipative management
20. Abraham Maslow
    The 'hierarchy of needs' in motivation
21. Elton W. Mayo
    Human relations in industry and respect for individuals
22. Henry Mintzberg
    How strategy is made and how managers use their time
23. Kenichi Ohmae
    Lessons from Japanese global business strategy
24. Richard T. Pascale
    The creative use of conflict in organizations
25. Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.
    The 'excellence' cult and prescriptions for managing chaotic change
26. Michael Porter
    Strategies for competitive advantage, both national and international
27. Reg Revans
    Managers educating each other through 'Action Learning'
28. Edgar H. Schein
    The 'psychological contract' between employer and employed
29. Richard J. Schonberger
    Each function in a business should be a 'customer' of the next in the chain
30. E. F. Schumacher
    'Small is beautiful': the human scale against corporate 'gigantism'
31. Alfred P. Sloan
    Developed the key principle of decentralization for big corporations
32. F. W. Taylor
    The science of work and 'functional management'
33. Max Weber
    How individuals respond to authority in organizations