Managing Professionals deals with the tensions between managers
and professionals within organizations, such as hospitals,
universities, banks and judicial organizations. Often managers rely
heavily on the skills and expertise of the professionals in their
organizations, yet these professionals consider management a source
of bureaucracy and paperwork.
This tension is explored head on in order to answer the question
of how to manage an organization effectively. With numerous
real-world examples, the book analyzes the problems and
complexities of management in professional organizations and makes
recommendations on how to manage professionals. The book focuses on
a number of key issues, including:
- Management as a problem
- Management as a solution
- Knowledge and innovation
- Strategy
- Cooperation
- Performance
Managing Professionals presents an empirical analysis of the
problems and offers solutions to the tension between management and
professionals and will be of interest to managers and to students
of management, organizational behaviour and business
administration.
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