Overview
- Provides a systematic framework of technical and economic principles for the effective performance of the executive role and a moral foundation on which to base the management profession
- Analyses the fundamental contributions of Chester I. Barnard, particularly his business model designed to make the capitalist system sustainable
- Presents strategic elements for effective leadership in terms of the quality of organizational operations, personnel motivation and business results
Part of the book series: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management (ITKM)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Chester I. Barnard considered the company to be a complex socio-economic system, oriented towards general aims. A company’s behavior is rational if its constituent elements and management models are planned, organized, guided and regulated in order to create and maintain a cooperative system that combines efficiency and effectiveness. In this book, the conceptual construction of Barnard’s management theory is represented by a synthetic scheme in which the various components of the business process (including leadership) and their influences on the outcome variables of the company are linked as a system. This approach makes this book appealing to academics, scholars and professionals in business, management, administration and knowledge management.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
After graduating in Economics, she was Co-ordinator for Masters in Entertainment Management and, Management Development for LUISS Management School of Rome, participating in various research projects on Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources and then Company Organization, Work Organization and Production Cycles. She then worked in teaching and training for various courses at Sapienza University including the Quality Management postgraduate course and for companies in the private and public sectors.
She has also been a consultant and teacher for several public and private organizations: IFAP- IRI, IAFE, PhD teacher in Management, Banking and Commodities Sciences for Quality Management in the Sapienza University Department of Management.
She was responsible for the project Quality in Public Television (Qualità e Sicurezza nell’Audiovisivo), School of Economics Research, Sapienza University – RAI convention.
She is a member of the Quality Monitoring Committee Team of MANIMP (Management delle Imprese) for the Business Management postgraduate course in the Department of Management, School of Economics, Sapienza University of Rome. She is a reviewer for the International Journal of Environment and Health (IJEnvH) (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd & UNESCO). She is also a member of SIM (Società Italiana di Merceologia).
For the last ten years, her main interest has been Total Quality Management and Leadership, involving collaboration with important companies and the completion of various research projects.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Efficient Management and Leadership Practices
Book Subtitle: The Contemporary Relevance of Chester I. Barnard's Thought in the Context of the Knowledge-Based Economy
Authors: Stefania Zanda
Series Title: Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60068-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60067-3Published: 18 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86770-0Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60068-0Published: 11 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2197-5698
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 187
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Knowledge Management, Corporate Social Responsibility