Böcker av Fredmund Malik

In today s competitive world, good management is essential. With "Management: The Essence of the Craft," Fredmund Malik one of the most prominent authors of management scholarship in Europe draws on the works of Stafford Beer, Peter Drucker, Friedrich von Hayek, and Viktor Frankl to outline the basic principles of effective professional management. While previous studies have relied strictly on human psychology to evaluate existing theories of management, Malik instead employs a cybernetics of complex systems for the task. Though "Mangagement "is written primarily for managers in the business world, it will be valuable to those in other fields facing management tasks."

Exploring the technological innovations that have revolutionized business, the author outlines the problems confronting companies in this novel era. He discusses the many effective cybernetic systems for strategic navigation and the patterns of transformations to come, along with the economic dynamics that can accompany them.

The rapidly increasing complexity of societal systems increases the need for professionalism in management - one must be able to function reliably regardless of increasing management complexity in the twenty-first century. This book is written for practitioners who bear responsibility for overall governance of their organizations.

Focuses on one exemplary manager: Helmut Maucher, the former Nestle CEO who turned his company into a powerful global enterprise without being distracted by passing fads. This book - a combination of interviews, essays, and other works by Maucher - offers a unique exchange of ideas between three of the world's corporate management pioneers.

Argues that businesses and other societal institutions can function autodynamically - in much the same fashion that modern technology steers, controls, and regulates itself - by adopting general systems policies. This title explains the way that organizations must be structured so that they can organize themselves.

Delineating the psychological, management, and economic errors business leaders tend to make, this title explains how these errors can be avoided through conscientious attention to the use of clear language.