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Adventures in management : a saga of managing in a developing country / Kenneth Abeywickrama.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Response Books, 2007.Description: 224 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780761935506 (paper back)
  • 0761935509 (paper back)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.409 ABE [ Shelf 79]
LOC classification:
  • 658.409 ABE
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Contents:
Managing amid chaos -- Coping with chaos -- Proletarian power -- Learning from subordinates -- Class and caste systems -- Good governance and weak managers -- The great divide in a business -- Sometimes, managers are too human -- Searching for transparency -- Crossing the class barrier -- Junior, eschew the limelight -- The importance of networking -- Middle East sketches: Saudi and Yemen -- Middle East sketches: the Gulf and Afghanistan -- Multinationals are good for you -- Public services can be managed -- Public service management -- Meeting the people -- Making a quick buck -- Redeeming promises -- Getting people to work -- Re-programming people -- More encounters with politicians -- Image building -- Saving the forests -- Mending the system -- A parting of ways -- Epilogue.
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Reference Indian Institute Of Management, Shillong 658.409 ABE [ Shelf 79] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 0004986

Managing amid chaos -- Coping with chaos -- Proletarian power -- Learning from subordinates -- Class and caste systems -- Good governance and weak managers -- The great divide in a business -- Sometimes, managers are too human -- Searching for transparency -- Crossing the class barrier -- Junior, eschew the limelight -- The importance of networking -- Middle East sketches: Saudi and Yemen -- Middle East sketches: the Gulf and Afghanistan -- Multinationals are good for you -- Public services can be managed -- Public service management -- Meeting the people -- Making a quick buck -- Redeeming promises -- Getting people to work -- Re-programming people -- More encounters with politicians -- Image building -- Saving the forests -- Mending the system -- A parting of ways -- Epilogue.

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