Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise
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Now that we've been downsized and outsourced and reengineered and networked, management gurus are finally focusing on the one universal resource that has been staring them in the face all along: their so-called "human capital." The funny thing is, some of the best thinking on the subject was published more than four decades ago, when few senior business people were ready to listen. In essays like "New Concepts of Management" and books like The Human Side of Enterprise, the late MIT educator Douglas McGregor argued articulately that corporations are not merely machines, nor are workers simply cogs to run them. Now, in Douglas McGregor, Revisited, Gary Heil, Warren G. Bennis, and Deborah C. Stephens resurrect many of these prescient observations and place them in a context appropriate for our times. The three prominent leadership specialists open with "Why McGregor Matters," an extensive section in which his opinions are discussed as they relate to performance, cooperation, motivation, commitment, and other topics like teams. The authors conclude with selections from McGregor's work that address issues (including the changing composition of the industrial work force, job satisfaction, and paternalism) that remain as relevant today as the day they were written. --Howard Rothman
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"Amid the hype accompanying the launch of new business books, one title towers above the rest. Douglas McGregor, Revisited aims to make the work of one of the great management thinkers accessible to a new generation. The timing could not be better.... To disregard McGregor's work is to ignore the central dilemma of management." (The Times, September, 2000)
"It is a powerful reminder of key questions for organisations yesterday, today and tomorrow." (People Management, 14th September, 2000)
"Welcome resurrection of a great thinker and a guide to creating a value-driven organisation DNA." (Director, October 2000)
Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise
Douglas McGregor, Revisited: Managing the Human Side of the Enterprise,Gary Heil,Warren Bennis,Deborah C. Stephens,Wiley,0471314625,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Entrepreneurship,Human Resources & Personnel Management,Management - General,Personnel management,Business & Economics / Management,Personnel & human resources management
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