1st Edition

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 2)

Edited By Arthur G. Bedeian Copyright 1993
460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

460 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1993. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication, the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in... Read more

Preface Arthur G. Bedeian;  1. Happiness and Unhappiness: A Brief Autobiography Frederick I. Herzberg  2. Slow Learner and Late Bloomer Robert J. House  3. Understanding Work Motivation and Organizational Effectiveness: A Career-Long Journey Edward E. Lawler, III  4. Doing Problem-Oriented Research: A Daughter’s Interview Paul R. Lawrence with Anne T. Lawrence  5. Reflections on Leadership, Teaching, and Problem Solving Groups Edmund Philip Learned  6. Teacher as Leader Harry Levinson  7. Principled Ambition Edwin A. Locke  8. Field of Dreams: Perspectives on the Teaching of Management Dalton E. McFarland  9. Pursuing Diversity in an Increasingly Specialised Organisational Science John B. Miner  10. Twenty-Five Years Later…The Illusive Strategy Henry Mintzberg  11. The Takeoff William H. Newman  12. An Almost Random Career Charles Perrow

Biography

Arthur G. Bedeian