Managing For The Future: Organizational Behavior and Procedures (Paperback)

~ Deborah G. Ancona (Author)

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This text is based on the innovative and acclaimed course taught at MIT. The modular approach of the text's content allows adopters the freedom to select only those modules they wish to include in the course. Managing for the Future begins by setting the 'new' organization (a flat, flexible, networked and diverse entity) as the context in which managerial action takes place. The rest of the text works through teams, organizations, and skills. The three lenses (strategic design, political, and cultural) are used to analyze organizations and plan action. The goal is not only to describe the organization of the future, but also show readers how to become better actors within it.

About the Author

Deborah Ancona is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. She received bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Columbia University. Prior to joining MIT, she was on the faculty of the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. Professor Ancona's major research interests include group processes, team performance, boundary management, and time and timing in organizations. She has published articles in these areas in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and Group and Organization Studies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 764 pages
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 2 edition (December 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0538875461
• ISBN-13: 978-0538875462
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,458,884 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Ehhh, February 27, 2009

By	Daddie "Daddie" (WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes (Paperback)

From one of the worst classes I've taken, and I'm still pondering if it was the book or the professor's lack of student instruction. Great presentations on info from the prof when not having the students or guest present, (he graded too little and oddly as well) but I can't say the book and him ever really seemed to balance out. Potentially good, but in the hands of a death on student teaching and inactive prof it's just a paper weight. Maybe if the prof knew or used the book more in class I'd have a better oppinion. More likely the publisher would of had to make lesson plans and free business examples like those found on Harvard Review Online to make things fit better overall. Either way it wasn't much of a single source guide in my experience to make up for the lack of others.