Adventures in management
Subtitle: a saga of managing in a developing country
By: Kenneth Abeywickrama.
Publisher: Response Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780761935506
Subjects: Management -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Table of contents: title: Managing amid chaos; title: Coping with chaos; title: Proletarian power; title: Learning from subordinates; title: Class and caste systems; title: Good governance and weak managers; title: The great divide in a business; title: Sometimes, managers are too human; title: Searching for transparency; title: Crossing the class barrier; title: Junior, eschew the limelight; title: The importance of networking; title: Middle East sketches: Saudi and Yemen; title: Middle East sketches: the Gulf and Afghanistan; title: Multinationals are good for you; title: Public services can be managed; title: Public service management; title: Meeting the people; title: Making a quick buck; title: Redeeming promises; title: Getting people to work; title: Re-programming people; title: More encounters with politicians; title: Image building; title: Saving the forests; title: Mending the system; title: A parting of ways; title: Epilogue.