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The Executive Way (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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The Executive Way (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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What causes conflict among high-level American corporate
executives? How do executives manage their conflicts? Based on
interviews with over two hundred executives and their support
personnel, Calvin Morrill seeks to answer these and other questions
and also provide an intimate portrait of these men and women as
they cope with problems usually hidden from those outside their
exclusive ranks. Personal and corporate scandals, compensation
battles, budget worries, interdepartmental rivalries, personal
enmities, and general rancor are among the topis looked at. The
author asserts that what most influences the way managers handle
routine conflicts are the cultures created by their company's
organizational structure: whether there is a strong hierarchy, a
weak hierarchy, or an absence of any strong central authority. The
issues most likely to cause conflict within corporations he
identifies as managerial style, competition between departments,
and performance evaluations, promotions, and compensation. Among
the people whose day-to-day lives are studied are Jacobs, a
divisional executive whose intuitive understanding of the corporate
hierarchy enables him to topple his incompetent superior without
direct confrontation; Fuller, who through a mix of brains, guile,
and connections rises from staff executive secretary to corporate
vice president in a large bank; Green, an old-fashioned accounting
partner in a firm being taken over by management consultants; and
the "Princess of Power," "Iron Man," and the "Terminator" -
executives fighting their way to the top of a successful
entertainment company. This portrayal of daily life and conflict
management among corporate elites will be of interest to
professionals, scholars, and practitioners in organizational
culture and behaviour, managerial decision making, dispute, social
control, law and society, and organizational ethnography.
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