African Economic Humanism
The Rise of an African Economic Philosophy
Mfuniselwa J. Bhengu
Why does capitalism fail to thrive in Africa? Is there an alternative system that will enhance economic development?
In African Economic Humanism, Mfuniselwa Bhengu believes he has the answer. He focuses on the cultural influences, the traditional concept of Ubuntu with its emphasis on community, sharing and generosity, to establish an approach to economics that is rooted in African belief systems. Based on his studies of African philosophy and economics, his theory of economic humanism could have the power to transform individuals, organizations and societies throughout and beyond Africa.
This exciting addition to the Gower Transformation and Innovation Series is of interest to a wide international audience of academics and researchers, policy makers, development specialists and businesses.
Contents:
Prologue; Pre-colonial African economic relations; The ascendancy of Western capitalism; The nature of South African capitalism; Responses to western capitalism; the 'capitalist comrades'; The Bantu philosophy of NTU, An African economic humanism theory; An enterprise that profits society, Albert Koopman; Epilogue: the birth of the human future; References; Index.
About the Author:
Mfuniselwa John Bhengu is a Parliamentarian in the Republic of South Africa. He has served in many Parliamentary Portfolio Committees, both at the National Assembly and KwaZulu/Natal Legislature. He has held executive positions for over 20 years in a range of national, regional and local public and private bodies. He is widely acknowledged as an authority on African philosophy (Ubuntu) and economics. He is a doctoral candidate with the DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa – UNISA. Bhengu has travelled widely in connection with his many roles, spoken worldwide, and authored two books on Ubuntu. He is an Associate Researcher for the TRANS4M Four World Center for Innovation in Geneva.
Series:
Transformation and Innovation
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Business, Gender & Culture; General Finance and Business Economics;
African Business and Economics; Growth and Development
Dewey Code: 330.9'6-dc22 BIC Code: KCM
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April 2011 244 x 172 mm c. 190 pages
Hardback 978-1-4094-0435-4 c. £60.00
ebook 978-1-4094-0436-1
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Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture
Alzira Salama
Entrepreneurship is often considered only in the context of new venture creation, small business issues, and the profiles and personalities of individual entrepreneurs. The emphasis in Creating and Re-Creating Corporate Entrepreneurial Culture is very much on the 'corporate', it focuses on the creation and maintenance of an entrepreneurial management culture that accelerates growth and enhances effectiveness and competitiveness in large organizations.
Alzira Salama explains what constitutes entrepreneurial behaviour, how it is facilitated by organizational culture and why entrepreneurial corporate culture is fundamental to business success. She takes you through ways of identifying prevailing cultures and explains how cultures are reinforced or changed. Drawing on exemplary case studies from around the world, she tells the stories both of successful and unsuccessful interventions made in response to the need to move on from bureaucratic or authoritarian cultures. These include specific instances where the context has been privatization, merger and acquisition, transition in the wider economy, or a combination of any of these circumstances.
This enlightening book will help managers and consultants, business educators, higher level students and those on executive programmes to understand the nature of an organization's culture, why it is as it is, whether it needs to change, and how it might be changed. Alzira Salama offers real world examples of how to create or re-create an entrepreneurial culture together with tools that will enable corporations to achieve it.
Contents:
Introduction/Preface; Part I Entrepreneurial Behaviour: an Overview: Unleashing entrepreneurial behaviour; Culture and behaviour: what are the links? Part II Biography of Organisations and Culture Transformation: Biography of organisations: a key for a transformation process; Organisational culture transformation: Cross-case analysis. Part III From Bureaucracy and Inertia to Entrepreneurship: Organic Growth: Causes of inertia and integrative model for culture evolution and transformation; British Airways story; British Nuclear Fuels story; Jaguar Cars story; British Airports Authority Story; Xerox do Brazil story. Part IV Creating Entrepreneurial Synergies Through Cross-Border Acquisitions: Corporate entrepreneurship and acquisitions: an introduction and integration process model; The role of acculturation process: Ford-Volvo, Deutsche Bank-Bankers Trust, British Petroleum-Amoco; Integration strategies and entrepreneurial synergies: Electrolux-Zanussi and Electrolux-Diamond-board. Part V The Future of Corporate Entrepreneurship; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Alzira Salama is a management consultant and a senior lecturer at the London campus of the European School of Economics (ESE), where she was Academic Director for four years. She has a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Lancaster University. Before embarking on academic life Alzira Salama worked for ten years as Management Development Manager for Verolme do Brazil a large Dutch shipyard and as an Executive Education specialist at Xerox Corporation in Brazil. This experience has been fundamental for her understanding of human behaviour issues at the work place. Alzira Salama lectured at Cranfield School of Management. She was a visiting researcher and lecturer at the European Business School (EBS), London and at the London School of Economics (LSE). She has been involved in action research projects, delivered many conference papers and is widely published, winning awards in the process. Her earlier book is entitled Privatization: Implications for Corporate Culture Change.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Change Management; Organisational Development; People Management;
Sociology of Work and Organizations
Dewey Code: 658.4'063-dc22 BIC Code: KJF
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Includes 8 line drawings
March 2011 244 x 172 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-566-09194-0 c. £60.00
ebook 978-0-566-09195-7
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Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce
From the GI Generation to the Millennials
Robert G. DelCampo, Lauren A. Haggerty, Meredith Jane Haney and
Lauren Ashley Knippel
For the first time in history, four distinct and very different generations are working together. Generational conflict is one of the last bastions of acceptable discrimination in today's workplace. Each generation has different beliefs, expectations, values, learning styles, and desires. These result in a strong tendency for them to adopt different work habits.
Managing employees of several generations is not an easy task, but it is the reality of the business world today. The creation of a culture and coordinating programs that foster communication and collaboration between all of the generations present in the workforce will help to alleviate the difficulties managers may encounter. In order to truly create a cohesive workplace, managers must encourage employees to view generational difference as a valuable strength rather than a weakness.
Based on rigorous academic research, Managing the Multi-Generational Workforce identifies the characteristics of the different generations, considers their expectations and values, and how these influence the way they relate to each other. The authors then examine implications for organizational culture and structures, recruitment and retention tactics, training, and management styles and approaches.
This book actually tackles the issue of properly integrating the newest generation - the 'Millennials', into the workforce and challenges the unrealistic belief that all that needs to happen is for younger generations to be 'changed' to conform to workforce norms. As younger generations enter the workforce, and eventually dominate it, workforce norms will change. Any firm or manager competing in today's war for top talent will find this book indispensable.
Contents:
Introduction; Overview of the Generations; Millennials; Expectations and Values; Building Relationships; Psychological Contracts; Organizational Culture and Structure; Recruitment and Retention Tactics; Training and Designing Work Groups; Managerial Styles; References; Index.
About the Author:
Dr. Robert G. (Rob) DelCampo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Organization Studies, University of New Mexico, holding the Rutledge Endowed Professorship in Management. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Administrative Sciences and Associate, Editor of The Business Journal of Hispanic Research and was recently named to New Mexico Business Weekly's "40 Under 40" top young professional list and one of Albuquerque The Magazine's "15 People Who Will Change Albuquerque". Rob has published or presented over 75 papers and is the author of 5 books. He has consulted for over 25 Fortune 500 companies including Ford, Home Depot, Dell and Intel. Rob earned a Ph.D. from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and holds MBA and undergraduate degrees from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Lauren A. Haggerty attended the University of New Mexico earning degrees in Accounting (BBA) and Organizational Behavior/Human Resources (MBA). Currently, she works in Student Affairs where she deals with Millennials on a day-to-day basis.
Meredith Jane Haney attended the University of New Mexico where she attained a bachelor's in Business Administration with a focus in Accounting. She earned her MBA concentrating in Management Information Systems, Information Assurance, and Organizational Behavior/Human Resources from the Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico.
Lauren Ashley Knippel graduated with her bachelor's in Business Administration with a focus in Human Resources and Organizational Leadership from the Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico. She attained her MBA concentrating in Strategic Planning.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Diversity; People Management; Personnel Management & HRM; Sociology of Work and Organizations
Dewey Code: 658.3'0084-dc22 BIC Code: KJ
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January 2011 216 x 138 mm c. 112 pages
Paperback 978-1-4094-0388-3 c. £16.99
ebook 978-1-4094-0389-0
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Alan Reynolds
The Making of a Concretist Artist
Michael Harrison
With an essay by Susanne Pfleger
Alan Reynolds (b.1926) is an English artist of international repute, whose career falls into two unequal halves: the landscape and abstract painter of the 1950s and 1960s, and the constructive artist of the last forty years. This illustrated monograph is the first book to bring together these two different bodies of work and to provide a complete overview of Reynolds' development as an artist.
The quest for equilibrium has been at the centre of Alan Reynolds' art since he emerged from the Royal College of Art over fifty years ago already fêted, as Bryan Robertson wrote, as 'the golden boy of post neo-romanticism in England'. Reynolds' engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Paul Nash but also by Paul Klee and increasingly by Mondrian, until depiction was firmly set aside in favour of the abstract.
This book traces the progress of Alan Reynolds' work from the early landscapes to the tonal modular drawings and constructed white reliefs of the last thirty years. Author Michael Harrison has worked closely with the artist to produce an insightful analysis of this diverse and fascinating body of work. The book also reflects Alan Reynolds' reception in Europe with an essay by Professor Susanne Pfleger, Director of the Städtischen Galerie, Wolfsburg.
Contents:
Prelude; Foreword; Early Years; Abandonment of Painting; Essay by Susanne Pfleger; Exhibitions; Index.
About the Author:
Michael Harrison is Director of Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and has contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues on British art and artists. Susanne Pfleger is Director of the Städtischen Galerie, Wolfsburg.
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Modern British Painting; Twentieth-Century Art and Visual Studies; Contemporary Art and Visual Studies
Dewey Code: BIC Code: ACXJ
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Includes 100 colour and 50 b&w illustrations
January 2011 270 x 260 mm 176 pages
Hardback 978-1-84822-068-3 £40.00
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Tania Kovats
Jeremy Millar and Philip Hoare
After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. The intervening years have seen Kovats' early artistic promise grow and develop and today she stands as an important figure within British contemporary art. This monograph, the first of its kind, is a much-needed addition to the scant literature available on this original artist.
The highly controversial Virgin in a Condom, introduced Kovats' work to the wider artistic community. However, this piece is unrepresentative of an oeuvre which is dominated by the artist's primary interest in the landscape. Her sculptural forms and drawings are pre-occupied with the earth's shifting geology - cliff edges, canons, coastlines feature often. Rock formations such as the basalt columar landscapes of the Isle of Staffa and the Devil’s Post Pile in California are among her inspirations, as is the British Isles (one body of drawings mapped every individual, rock outcrop or island that surrounds mainland Britain).
Like the natural world which inspires it, Kovats' work is constantly shifting. This insightful monograph reveals the twists and turns of the artist's career to date - from her creations as fledging artist to Kovats' most recent successes which include her travelling meadow and the prestigious commission, to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, to create a permanent work in London's Natural History Museum. For all those interested in contemporary British art, this book is an essential purchase.
Contents:
Foreword, Paul Bonaventura; The tangled bank: Some thoughts on some works by Tania Kovats, Jeremy Millar; Plates; Something against nothing, Philip Hoare; Plates; Afterword, Tania Kovats; Biographies.
About the Author:
Jeremy Millar is an artist, curator and writer. From 1995 to 2000 he was Programme Organiser at The Photographers' Gallery where he curated many exhibitions. Millar has published over eighty texts in a number of interational publications and his books include Peter Fraser (2002) and Place (with Tacita Dean, 2005).
Philip Hoare is a writer and critic. His books include Noel Coward: A Biography (1995); England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005) and Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), which won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Contemporary Art and Visual Studies; British Art and Visual Studies; Sculpture
Dewey Code: 709.2-dc22 BIC Code: AGB
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Includes 117 colour and 11 b&w illustrations
January 2011 325 x 245 mm 144 pages
Hardback 978-1-84822-078-2 £35.00
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Bid Writing for Project Managers
David Cleden
At what stage in the process do commercial projects go wrong? Some of the worst problems (unrealistic objectives, faulty assumptions, and poorly understood constraints) are 'programmed in' at conception when the bid is written, long before the project manager is brought on board. If the bid is misconceived, no amount of clever project management is going to recover the situation.
Involving the designated project manager at the bidding stage is becoming the norm in many commercial organizations. Some make the project manager the bid manager so they can direct all aspects of the project's conception. Getting the bid right is the essence of planning for project success, the main theme of this book. However, many project managers are unfamiliar with the pitfalls of competitive bidding and don't know how to balance a compelling sales message against a realistic delivery plan.