Like People : The under-Utilisation of People's Qualities, Capabilities and Skills in Larger Business Organisations

by Ehrnreich, Karel Rudolf

• ISBN13: 9789036194716
• ISBN10: 9036194717
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-05
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

This book is about man, people, leaders, managers, and the powers of bahavioral stimuli, to create or destroy success generating energies in business organizations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement	ix
Samenvatting	xx
Summary	xxii
Introduction and readers guide	xxxi
A vision on man	1	(38)
Introduction and summary of thoughts and lessons learned	3	(2)
Homo sapiens	5	(14)
Existentialism revisited	19	(5)
Communication	24	(13)
List of references	37	(2)
People and organization	39	(42)
Introduction and summary of thoughts and lessons learned	41	(4)
People and the business organization	45	(6)
Some performance barriers	51	(14)
Divergence and convergence	65	(3)
A real life illustration	68	(5)
Positive and Negative stress	73	(3)
Globalization, tribal retreat and global common denominators	76	(2)
What people seek in an organization	78	(2)
List of references	80	(1)
Culture, rituals, behavior and the company	81	(18)
Introduction and summary of thoughts and lessons learned	83	(3)
Socio-biological and socio-spiritual culture	86	(4)
When cultures clash and/or disconnect	90	(2)
Rituals	92	(3)
Company culture and leadership	95	(4)
Social deconstruction and reconstruction: The power of compassion and dialogue	99	(14)
Introduction and summary of thoughts and lessons learned	101	(3)
Fears of losing culture and identity	104	(1)
Expressions and learning -- how it works	105	(1)
Deconstruction and reconstruction applied to business cases	106	(3)
Time constraints	109	(1)
(Com)passion killers	109	(2)
List of references	111	(2)
Implications for leadership	113	(26)
Introduction and summary	115	(2)
We organize to make ordinary people do extraordinary things, not to make extraordinary people do ordinary things	117	(3)
Leadership and management	120	(3)
People and only people can make relations and organizations work satisfactorily and successfully	123	(4)
People as culture beings have the unique ability to create common and shared meaning in relationships with others	127	(4)
Culture is a condition for life and cultural differences are a condition for its continuity	131	(1)
Emotions drive reason	132	(6)
List of references	138	(1)
Introduction to the case stories	139	(6)
Under-utilization of human qualities and capabilities	141	(2)
The choice of the case stories	143	(1)
References and supporting documentation	144	(1)
The Philippine case	145	(28)
Introduction and summary	147	(2)
Phase one--January 1984-April 1984	149	(2)
Phase two-April 1985-December 1985	151	(5)
Phase three-1986	156	(5)
Phase four-1987	161	(3)
Phase five-1988 and conclusion	164	(2)
Reflections on the Philippine case	166	(5)
List of references	171	(2)
The Netherlands case	173	(30)
Introduction and summary of results	175	(1)
Phase one 1990-1992	176	(5)
Phase two-1993	181	(6)
Phase three--1994-1995	187	(6)
Turmoil in the management team	193	(2)
Phase four--1996-1998	195	(1)
Reflections on the Netherlands case	196	(5)
List of references	201	(2)
The India case	203	(34)
Introduction and summary	205	(1)
The India case story, environment	206	(6)
Phase one--September 1996-December 1996	212	(12)
Phase two--January 1997-August 1997	224	(8)
Phase three-September 1997-March 1998	232	(4)
List of references	236	(1)
Post-modernism: The electronic world and web-enabled relationships	237	(20)
Introduction	239	(3)
Are we experiencing an industrial revolution?	242	(1)
Technological development, friend or stranger?	243	(1)
Product concepts and customer/product relationships	244	(2)
Globalization issues	246	(1)
The electronic world and web-enabled relationships	247	(5)
Existential turmoil	252	(4)
List of references	256	(1)
About the author	257