Contextual Management: A Global Perspective

Senior executives, middle managers, supervisors, administrators, and other students of administrative behavior need to know why harnessing human energies demands a full understanding of organizational and cultural contexts combined with a knowledge of personality characteristics--of self and others. In response to this need, Contextual Management: A Global Perspective addresses the art of getting things done in today's organizational world. It offers managers guidelines for working under a varied set of circumstances and explores ways to increase administrative effectiveness in organizations worldwide.Contextual Management integrates different administrative levels and various organizational cultures with appropriate management styles and personal attributes to help you recognize the position context where you can be most effective. Using its self-assessment questions, you can gauge your strengths, weaknesses, and requisites for particular administrative position roles and contexts. You can also use tools from the book's appendix to help you assess personality attributes as well as the characteristics of a particular position context. You will put your individual experiences into perspective and enhance your understanding of organizational realities as you read about: individual managerial behavioral relationships organizational designs, job configurations, and CEO orientations recruiting, placing, motivating, and supporting your staff identifying a particular unit's work culture and recognizing its characteristics why a supervisor must be personable to be able to carry out instructions from superiors while gaining allegiance from subordinates assuring 'good fits’of administrative personnel in various organizational systems goals--the logical stepping stones for initiating the process of implementation the constraints particular work systems place on the relationships between managers and others within an organization Appropriate styles of performance, as Contextual Management illustrates, are contextual, not universal. The fact that you are effective in one environment doesn't mean you will be effective in another. With this book, though, you can change your thinking about functions of leadership, decision making, communication, planning, and implementation and realize congruence in whichever environmental niche your organization moves into next!

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One. Organizational Management: A Perspective Management Functions and Process Administrative Role Performance Organizational Levels Societal Cultures Personality Characteristics Our Perspective Summary Self-Assessment Questions Suggested Readings Chapter Two. Organizational Levels and Administrative Roles Organizational Levels Administrative Roles Summary Self-Assessment Questions Suggested Readings Chapter Three. Critical Dimensions of Organizational Cultures The Macro Dimension The Micro Dimension Organizational Culture Dimensions: A Recapitulation Self-Assessment Questions Suggested Readings Chapter Four. Organizational Cultures and Management Styles Elements of Organizational Cultures Organizational Cultures Organizational-Cultural Transformations Management Styles Self-Assessment Questions Suggested Readings Chapter Five. Leadership: The Key Function Leadership Traits Significant Types of Leadership Leadership Styles Leadership Process Summary Self-Assessment Questions Suggested Readings Chapter Six. Decision Making Rational Decision-Making Process Methodology of Decision Making Significant Types of Decisions Decision-Making Styles Decision-Making Aids Decision-Making in Administration Chapter Seven. Communication Elements of Communication Ways of Communicating Significant Types of Communication Communicating Styles Communication Channels Communicating for Organizational Action Chapter Eight. Planning for Action Goals Programs Budgets Planning Phase Review Planning Styles Chapter Nine. Implementation for Results Organizing Staffing Employee Compensation Performance Evaluation Training and Development Controlling Implementation Phase Review Chapter Ten. Management Roles and Personal Attributes Personal Competencies Relationship Styles Motivation/Power/Temperaments Chapter Eleven. Position Roles and Personality Preferences Personality Preferences Organizational Contexts and Type Administrators Type Profile--Countries Some Special “Snug” Fits Team Building A Special Note Position Roles and Types Chapter Twelve. Organization and People Productivity Effectiveness Administrative Placement Reward System Career Advancement Organizational Systems Achieving Your Highest Potential Appendix A : Know Thyself Appendix B: Questionnaire on Personal Motivations Appendix C: Work Context Profile Notes Index