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A Better Way of Doing Business?

Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership

By: Graeme Salaman,John Storey

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A Better Way of Doing Business?

Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership

By: Graeme Salaman,John Storey

This book offers a thoroughly researched and accessibly written account of the John Lewis Partnership. It describes what the JLP is, how it works, and what other businesses can learn from it. The US/UK model of the firm, with its emphasis on shareholder value and its openness to the market in the buying and selling of businesses, is prone to a number of problematic consequences for employees, suppliers, and sometimes share-holders. The JLP represents a contrast to this model - one that has implications beyond the small niche of mutually-owned firms. The JLP has lessons for organizations that are unlikely to move towards the Partnership's distinctive shared ownership. This book identifies these lessons. The key questions addressed include: how does the JLP work in practice? What is the link between co-ownership, the JLP employment model, and the performance of the businesses? What is the role of management in the success of John Lewis and Waitrose? Are mutuality, co-ownership and business performance at odds? What is the significance of democracy within the JLP? And probably most significantly: what are the implications, for policy-makers and for economic agents of the JLP? This book is based on detailed knowledge of the JLP and its constituent business gathered by the authors over a fifteen year period. Their conclusion: that the JLP is more complex, even more impressive, and more interesting than its admirers realise.

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Oxford University Press

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0198782829

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9780198782827

Managers of Innovation

Insights into Making Innovation Happen

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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Managers of Innovation

Insights into Making Innovation Happen

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

Innovation is increasingly identified as the critical factor in ensuring economic competitiveness. Departments of state and quasi-governmental organizations in many countries including, Austria, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, have issued reports and calls to action; but implementation will continue to be problematic unless the points made in this book are taken into account. Drawing on 350 in-depth interviews with senior managers, this book presents an original theory about the characteristics of managers in “good innovative organizations” and “poor innovative organizations”. It pays close attention to the attitudes, understandings, assumptions and interpretations of managers, who are often the ultimate decision-makers when it comes to innovation. The text is supported by real-life, internationally-known cases such as Hewlett-Packard, Zeneca and the BBC, as well as voluntary sector cases such as Oxfam. It is also enriched by substantial and highly revealing quotations from senior managers themselves.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405178523

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9781405178525

Managerial Dilemmas

Exploiting paradox for strategic leadership

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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Managerial Dilemmas

Exploiting paradox for strategic leadership

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

In the midst of the most severe recession for 80 years there is little need to argue that organizations are beset by dilemmas and paradoxes. Confidence in prevailing business models and in the underlying assumptions underpinning business decisions over many decades has now been shaken. But it is not enough to rail against arrogance and greed. Within their own (flawed) assumptions bankers and corporate leaders were acting rationally. A major reason for the failure to anticipate and warn is that observers of organizations usually tend to view organizations in terms similar to those employed by the people who run them: as rational, sensible and objective, whereas, in fact, they are usually confused and confusing, paradoxical and contradictory entities. Paradox is at the heart of how organizations work (or don’t work) yet the phenomenon has been strangely unstudied. In an age of crisis and uncertainty, dilemmas and paradoxes are especially evident and prevalent. The fascination and the promise of paradox is that there is also a sense that there is a hidden truth entwined within the opposites. This we contend is a challenge for leaders. The ultimate responsibility of leadership is to make sense of these and to handle them in a competent manner. This demands a new mode of leadership. The management of dilemma and paradox it is contended, the essence of leadership today. Paradoxical forces provide a dynamism which, although often experienced as potentially threatening, discomforting and negative can also be exciting, promising and positive. "The assumption that organizations are rational entities is challenged every day in the work environment by a rich reality of asymmetries between conflicting forces, complexity, hidden intentions and paradoxes. Anyone wanting to understand the real forces that govern organizations should read this book. A must read for modern leaders who have the intellectual honesty to lead organisations with open eyes and not with the over simplifications and clichés of the past"--Giovanni Ghisetti, Director Business Transformation, Coca Cola Enterprises Europe "Storey and Salaman’s description of the paradoxes which characterise leadership today is hauntingly accurate. Their intelligent optimism that those dilemmas can be met is as encouraging as it is challenging for those of us who have to do just that. Having read the insights in this book I now understand how their business advice was always so pertinent".--Andy Street, Managing Director of John Lewis

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444316591

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9781444316599

Law for Business Students

By: Alix Adams,Stephanie Caplan,Graeme Lockwood

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Law for Business Students

By: Alix Adams,Stephanie Caplan,Graeme Lockwood

Law for Business Students is the popular textbook for introducing legal concepts to non-law students in a practical, engaging way through real-life cases relevant to the business world. A clear explanation of the study of law and study skills leads into the main core topics of law: contract (including intellectual property), tort, employment and business organisations (including formation), governance and dissolution. The book also includes a range of features to aid understanding, applying and analysing legal concepts: - Scenarios - to encourage development of opinions and application of relevant legal concepts. - Worth thinking about - discussion points to analyse within the classroom. - Exam tips - pointing to areas of the law which are ripe for questions in an exam, to help revision practice. - Chapter summaries - to reinforce learning of key concepts. - Key terms - highlighted in margin notes. - Review questions with answers - self-test questions and worked exam examples to consolidate knowledge, encouraging students to apply the law and boost confidence. - Advanced questions - to challenge students in developing knowledge of the law. This 12th edition has been fully updated and also provides restructured coverage of negligence, with dedicated chapters covering negligence and special duty situations and product liability. Clear and concise, it provides accessible coverage of the fundamental legal principles and an understanding of the practical application of the law to the business environment. Additional instructor resources to accompany the book are available at www.pearsoned.co.uk/adams"--

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Pearson UK

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1292272236

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9781292272238

Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

By: Graeme T. Laurie,Shawn Harmon,Edward Dove

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Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

By: Graeme T. Laurie,Shawn Harmon,Edward Dove

This classic textbook has provided students of medical law and ethics with a framework for exploring this fascinating subject for over 30 years. Providing coverage of all of the topics found on medical law courses, it gives an overview of the inter-relationship between ethical medical practice and the law. Medical law is significantly shaped by the courts, and as such this book provides extensive coverage of recent judicial decisions as well as statutory developments. The new edition continues to evolve to reflect changes in the law and shifting ethical opinions.

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0198826214

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Human Resource Management

A Strategic Introduction

By: Christopher Mabey,Graeme Salaman,John Storey

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Human Resource Management

A Strategic Introduction

By: Christopher Mabey,Graeme Salaman,John Storey

Building on the success of the first edition, Christopher Mabey and Graeme Salaman are joined by John Storey in producing an even more comprehensive and thoroughly revised textbook.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631208232

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9780631208235

Strategy and Capability

Sustaining Organizational Change

By: Graeme Salaman,David Asch

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Strategy and Capability

Sustaining Organizational Change

By: Graeme Salaman,David Asch

Modern managers and students of management are inundated with advice on how to change organizations in order to improve effectiveness. This book makes sense of all this competing advice, considering the best ways for organizations to develop their strategic capabilities in a fast-changing world.

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1405142103

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Managerial Dilemmas

Exploiting paradox for strategic leadership

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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Exploiting paradox for strategic leadership

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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Strategic Human Resource Management

By: Christopher Mabey,Graeme Salaman

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Strategic Human Resource Management

By: Christopher Mabey,Graeme Salaman

Strategic Human Resource Management d provides a thorough overview of all aspects of human resource strategy and is designed as a benchmark text for undergraduate and MBA students.

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0631185054

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9780631185055

Managing

By: Graeme Salaman

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Managing

By: Graeme Salaman

Salaman offers a conceptual model of management - as responsibility for the quality of subordinates' work - and identifies the constituent skills necessary for the effective management of others' performance. He provides practical suggestions to help manag

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0335193641

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9780335193646

Managers of Innovation

Insights into Making Innovation Happen

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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Insights into Making Innovation Happen

By: John Storey,Graeme Salaman

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1405178523

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A Better Way of Doing Business?

Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership

By: Graeme Salaman,John Storey

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Lessons from the John Lewis Partnership

By: Graeme Salaman,John Storey

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Oxford University Press

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0198782829

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Community and Occupation

An Exploration of Work/Leisure Relationships

By: Graeme Salaman

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Community and Occupation

An Exploration of Work/Leisure Relationships

By: Graeme Salaman

This book explores the relationship between work leisure time. At the opposite extreme to the 'instrumental' attitude, where work and leisure time remain separate, is the close involvement in work and the correspondingly close relationship between working and non-working identities characteristic of 'occupational communities', which this book attempts to define.

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CUP Archive

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0521202450

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