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Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage thems...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Addleson, Mark (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Business and Management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Human Resource Management.
Knowledge Management.
Management.
Office Management.
Organization.
Business.
Knowledge management.
Leadership.
Office management.
Personnel management.
Planning.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Traditional management structures, systems,and tools, intended to make the first factories of the industrial ageefficient, are now obsolete. Applying them to knowledge-work has exactly the opposite effect, causing all kinds of breakdowns. This book explains why knowledge workers have to manage themselves and tells them how to do it.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 276 pages)
ISBN:9780230343412
DOI:10.1057/9780230343412