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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Management gurus"”.
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Management Gurus and Management Fashions: A Dramatistic Inquiry.
Since the 1980s, popular management thinkers, or management gurus, have promoted a number of performance improvement programs or management fashions that have greatly influenced both the pre-occupations of academic researchers and the everyday conduct of organizational life. This thesis provides a …
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Who do you think you are? A hermeneutic study of leaders' identities.
… others by drawing on the formulas and ideas of 'management gurus'.In the thesis both the role and the social meaning of 'leadership' was dynamic and changed over time through experience, with the actors embodied practices contributing to their social identities. The neglect of the body in the …
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Global nomadism: a discursive and narratological analysis of identity concepts in the 'mobile professional'.
… of corporate texts that comprises books by management gurus and popular writers on globalization and corporate websites by consultancy firms, and collected personal narratives or life stories from a sample of professionals who in the pursuit of work have relocated internationally more than …
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The feasibility of introducing the concepts of TQM into the Saudi Arabian public sector.
Total Quality Management (TQM) and the implementation of its concepts and methods have been seen as to provide a promising way to improve management processes and building high quality products and services. Accordingly, during the past three decades many organisations have implemented TQM and its …
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Walking the tightrope: a case study of a consultancy.
… that illustrates the developing role of the management consultant and proposes that there are different approaches to consultancy. Some of these differences have come about as the profession has developed – for example, from the Organizational Development approach to knowledge management …
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Standing on the Toes of Giants: Social Movement Theory and the Case of the Learning Organisation.
… two interrelated topics; the perception of management theory in general, and the efficacy of the learning organisation in particular. The purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to compare the rhetoric espoused in the learning organisation literature with a survey of senior managers in large, …