Efficiency and Management
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Efficiency and Management

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Efficiency and Management

About this book

It is widely accepted that management concepts such as strategic management, human resource management and management development have a well-defined body of knowledge designed to inform management praxis, however the notion of efficiency has no such body of knowledge to support its application within management praxis. This book proposes the replacement of the generalised term efficiency with the more comprehensive notion of performance efficiency to provide a reliable basis on which to evaluate management behaviour. Given the scope of the investigation, the outcome is not designed to prove the success or failure of the inherent nature of efficiency, but rather to establish a new starting point for yet wider empirical research. At a macro-level, it advances the proposition that the notion of efficiency has become an ideological statement of support for any management intention rather than a practical means to inform or evaluate a range of management actions.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780415541237
eBook ISBN
9781134083268
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business General
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Routledge Studies in Management, Organization and Society
  2. Contents
  3. Tables
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 From laissez-faire to laissez-faire
  9. 2 Mercantilism to laissez-faire: The precursors of economic efficiency
  10. 3 The evolution of technical efficiency in the context of management practice, 1870–2001
  11. 4 The influence of professions on the notion of efficiency
  12. 5 Case study 1: Economic commentators and the influence of economic efficiency
  13. 6 Case study 2: Procurement and the notion of efficiency
  14. 7 Case study 3: The transfer from technical efficiency to economic efficiency in rail networks
  15. 8 Technical efficiency and management practice: Evidence from the literature
  16. 9 The notion of efficiency in globalizing management practice
  17. Appendix A Some notes on the study
  18. Appendix B Questionnaire on management efficiency
  19. Appendix C Content of efficiency responses
  20. Endnotes
  21. References
  22. Index