Foundations of management
By Juan Antonio Pérez López
Length11h 43m
About this audiobook
The purpose of this edition is to open new avenues up for research and resolution of problems, especially in business organizations and institutions with a great impact on people's everyday lives, in which is something easy to observe the relation among effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency. This pressing also collects the extensive experience of the author on Government Decisions and Action. Its mission is to form persons for the practice of management, taken as a profession, and to develop new knowledge in the service of persons, firms, and society as a whole.
The content is divided into three parts: The Company as a Human Organization, Governance Decisions and Management Action.
Juan Antonio Pérez López, who died in 1996, was DBS of Harvard University and Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Barcelona Company (IESE), which he also managed. His researches and publications have been focused on issues of Business Organization, which includes and integrates anthropological and ethical aspects too. Rialp has also published his book Theory of human action in organizations.
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GenreBusiness and Economics
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Publish dateSep 1, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2PROLOGUE
3FIRST PART THE COMPANY: A HUMAN ORGANIZATION
4CHAPTER 1 BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AS HUMAN REALITIES
5Introduction
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6What is an organization?
7Formal organization and real organization
8Elements of the formal organization
9Elements of the real organization
10Theories or models for explaining organizations
11Mechanical or technical system models
12Organic models: the organization as an organism
13Anthropological model: The organization as an institution
14Application of models to real-life situations
15The business firm as a human reality
16CHAPTER 2 HUMAN MOTIVATION Mechanistic and psycho-sociological theories
17Introduction
18The mechanistic theories
19The psycho-sociological models
20Maslow's theory
21Herzberg’s theory
22McGregor: Theory Xand Theory Y
23The limits of the psycho-sociological paradigm
24CHAPTER 3 THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY OF MOTIVATION
25Introduction
26Motives of individual actions
27Types of needs
28Motivational conflicts and their relationship to learning
29CHAPTER 4 THE INFORMAL OR SPONTANEOUS SYSTEM
30Introduction
31The formal system of an organization
32The spontaneous or informal system of an organization
33Organizational members
34The operative and structural relationship of an organization
35CHAPTER 5 HOW ORGANIZATIONS WORK (I) I. The mechanistic models
36Introduction
37The mechanistic models
38The concept of “organizational purpose” in mechanistic models
39The nature of the “fund of incentives”
40Types of power
41The intrinsic limits of “coercive power”
42The extrinsic limits of “coercive power”
43CHAPTER 6 HOW ORGANIZATIONS WORK (II) II. The psycho-sociological models
44Introduction
45The psycho-sociological models
46The psycho-sociological notion of “organizational purpose”
47CHAPTER 7 HOW ORGANIZATIONS WORK (III) III. The anthropological models
48Introduction
49The concept of the organization´s unity
50The anthropological model
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