Top Down
Subtitle: Why Hierarchies Are Here to Stay and How to Manage Them More Effectively
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: November 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781591394983
Subjects: Social, group or collective psychology; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Management - General; Employee empowerment; Executive ability; Hierarchies; Management; Organizational effectiveness
Description: "In this exploration of modern hierarchies, organizational behavior expert Harold J. Leavitt explains what has driven this disconnect between current management theory and the realities of working life. More important, he looks at how this disconnect affects today's managers, who struggle to operate democratically within results-driven, authoritarian hierarchies." "Top Down explores how innovative movements, from participative management to analytic management to "hot groups," have changed hierarchies. This book also shows how modern "manager/leaders" can cope with the conundrums they face in today's hierarchies."--Jacket.