Using research-based case examples, this book is the first systematic attempt to analyze the way human resources are managed within multi-divisional structures. John Purcell and Bruce Ahlstrand discuss the role of the corporate personnel department, the managers of unions and collective bargaining, and differing management styles. The book will be a useful aid in understanding the complexity for human resources management in the multi-divisional company, and providing a basis for action.

Human Resource Management in the Multi-Divisional Company

Business & Money

Purcell, John

Ahlstrand, Bruce

Industries

Oxford University Press

Based on comprehensive research into strategic planning literature, offers an analysis of the ten dominant schools of strategic thought

Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

MINTZBERG, HENRY

Lampel, Joseph

Management & Leadership

Free Press

Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field. No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool—it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese, Russian, and French, and has been used in top MBA programs worldwide. Strategy Safari makes sense of a field that often seems to make no sense. Mintzberg, Ahlstrand, and Lampel pair their sweeping vision of strategy making with an authoritative catalog in which they identify ten schools of strategy that have emerged over the past four decades. Why struggle through the vast, confusing terrain of strategy formation? With clarity and depth, Strategy Safari maps the strategic landscape and facilitates intelligent, informed strategy formation.

Strategy Bites Back is the antidote to conventional strategy books -- and conventional strategy formation. Edited by the legendary Henry Mintzberg, it contains contributions from everyone from Gary Hamel to Napoleon Bonaparte, Michael Porter to Hans Christian Andersen: essays, poems, case studies, cartoons, whatever it takes to 'free your mind' and unleash the crucial emotional side of strategy formation. Coverage includes: strategy and brinkmanship, culture, seduction; strategy lessons from your mother, from beehives, chess grandmasters, even the National Zoo. Along the way, Mintzberg and his colleagues take on the sacred cows and entrenched beliefs that keep strategists from recognizing their most powerful options. Strategy Bites Back doesn't just make strategy fun: it helps define strategies that offer huge upsides and real inspiration.

Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined (paperback)

Ft Press

Whether you subscribe to the philosophy that management is an art and not a science or that it’s a science composed of best practices and systemic steps, one thing is for sure: there is no one easy way to describe what managers do. In this inspiring book, Henry Mintzberg, one of today’s most respected and controversial thinkers on management, joins forces with other leading business figures to provide a provocative mix of writing on management that inspires laughter as much as it brings forth tears (for poor old management itself!). Management? It’s Not What You Think! gets readers thinking as they never have before on topics including management terminology and buzzwords, myths and maxims, MBAs, management fads, leadership, strategy, and much more. With wit, intrigue, and plenty of food for thought, Mintzberg presents articles, book and journal excerpts, letters, web selections, and musings that will spark debate in managers of all types and experiences and renew their interest in doing what they do best--managing.

Management? It's Not What You Think!

AMACOM

The classic, comprehensive guide to strategy formation from a leading expert and award-winning author.

Strategy Safari: TK

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Human Resource Management in the Multi-Divisional Company

Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through The Wilds of Strategic Management

Strategy Bites Back: It Is Far More, and Less, than You Ever Imagined (paperback)

Management? It's Not What You Think!

Strategy Safari: TK