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This book focuses on the establishment process of the Japanese style of management (JSM). Traditionally, it has been widely believed that the JSM is native to Japan and consists of three pillars: lifetime employment, a seniority-based wage system, and company unions. This book opposes these traditional views on the JSM and argues that it has been shaped by the influence of management theories and ideas of other countries. The JSM has not only adopted the ideas and concepts of other countries, but also has refined, translated, and customized them to make such ideas and concepts acceptable in Japan. The hypothesis presented here is that in the postwar period of rapid growth, the JSM was a hybrid set of management theories and techniques greatly influenced by American ideas about management.This book concentrates on the impact of American management theories and ideas on the JSM. Taking the historical point of view, it clarifies that impact not only for academics but also for business people. The hypothesis propounded here is that some of those theories and ideas have been accepted whereas some of them have been rejected and eventually made irrelevant. The following issues are discussed: scientific management, the human relations school, Barnard's organizational theory, Drucker's management thoughts, strategic management, human resource management, and corporate culture.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of indigenous entrepreneurship and its challenges while addressing ways to make businesses more inclusive and sustainable in the long term. Offering a balanced mix of critical perspectives, theoretical insights and practical implications, provided by both academics and practitioners, it examines how indigenous entrepreneurship practices in Southeast Asia challenge existing theories in business and management research. The chapters also explore the role of various stakeholders, such as the larger community and society, supply chain members, policy-makers, etc., in facilitating indigenous entrepreneurship.Highlighting the uniqueness and diversity of indigenous entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia, this book renders a comprehensive overview of contemporary indigenization topics, organized by Southeast Asian cultural and national contexts.

No matter which point you're currently at on the developer advocacy journey – whether you've already implemented a developer advocate function or you're exploring the possibility – this book is for you. This book provides actionable guidance that business and technology leaders can use to understand the benefits of advocacy, identify what goes into the function, and learn how to maximize the success of developer advocate teams.Developer advocacy is a role that is sometimes hard to quantify and build – but you feel it when you're missing it. Companies are struggling to solidify advocacy despite a strong desire to do so and little guidance exists for businesses seeking to build a developer advocacy program or assess its effectiveness. This book will show you how to get an advocacy program in your business: the basics of having an advocacy program, what tasks and processes need to be set up, and how to identify key stakeholders. You'll see how companies of all types that sell to or engage with technical audiences can develop a developer advocacy strategy. Specifically, you'll learn what developer advocates do, how business can start an advocacy practice in your organization and how to scale and operationalize such a practice once it is in place. The book will further explore the metrics for measuring advocacy success and ways the scale advocacy teams internally and externally. The Power of Developer Advocacy explores the exciting career path of advocacy for developers and engineers. What You Will LearnDiscover what developer advocacy isDetermine which sorts of companies need the functionUnderstand what the primary strategic considerations for developer advocacy isWho This Book is For Existing and future advocacy leaders, would-be developer advocates, developer marketers and DevRel teams and leaders

Dieses Buch seziert die Art und Weise, wie wir unseren Alltag ausmessen, abwägen und bewerten, um die eigene, ganz persönliche Welt klarer zu sehen und die wertvollen Ressourcen Zeit, Geld und Aufmerksamkeit für ein erfüllteres Lebens einzusetzen. Dafür stehen sechs Methoden zur Verfügung: Messen, Zählen und Wiegen sowie Schätzen, Vergleichen und Abhaken von Checklisten. Dabei fällt die Auswahl der Bewertungskriterien ebenso subjektiv aus wie die eigenen Bewertungen.Dieses Buch stellt diese Messmethoden an alltäglichen Beispielen vor und erläutert die geeigneten Methoden, um zu guten Alltags- und Lebensentscheidungen zu gelangen. Wahrnehmungsverzerrungen und (Selbst-) Manipulationen werden ebenso berücksichtigt wie die Frage, wie sich Unsicherheiten integrieren lassen.

Over the decades, academic literature has too often neglected the complexities and diversity of the African continent and the challenges faced by both multinational companies working across Africa and domestic African companies, particularly in the field of human resources. This edited collection has been compiled with the aim of developing our understanding and practice of HRM in an African context within an increasingly global work milieu. Chapters focus on different African countries and are underpinned by a critical approach to HRM, which goes beyond focussing on the business cases but considers the sensitivity of the national context. The authors will draw on various types of research (conceptual, theoretical and empirical) and incorporate contextual issues such as technology, politics, culture, and economics to supplement the readers'insights into the current state of human resource management in African countries. By highlighting theoretical underpinnings and emphasising the practical relevance of HR issues, this proposed book will offer an insightful guide for students and scholars interested in HR and management in developing economies.

This book presents a sociomaterial perspective on work and organizational practices within the operating room. Looking at medical work from a sociological perspective and drawing on ethnographic observations conducted in a hospital's operating block, this book analyses the entanglements of humans and technologies in the execution of everyday activities. It highlights how the sociomateriality of work and organizational practices manifests in the encounters between operators and material artifacts and inthe way objects and technologies participate in processes and practices of organizational communication. Objects and technologies are also shaped by these very practices, giving rise to a recursive relationship wherein technology, communication, and organizing are intertwined.A sociomaterial understanding of organizational and working practices explains the role of objects and technologies in the generation and enactment of professional knowledge, while questioning how power materializes through the interaction of humans and technical objects. This book will be of great interest to scholars, students, and practitioners interested in how sociomaterial perspectives can inform organization studies and reshape our understanding of the intricate relationships between humans and technologies in healthcare settings.

Five years'worth of management wisdom, all in one place.Get the latest, most significant thinking from the pages of Harvard Business Review in 5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2024 Edition. Every year, HBR editors examine the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past twelve months to select the definitive articles that have provoked the most conversation and inspired the most change. From managing in the age of outrage, to getting more out of your AI initiatives, to running the perfect one-on-one meeting, the articles in this five-book collection will help you manage your daily challenges and meet the changing competitive landscape head-on.Books in HBR's 10 Must Reads series offer essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business Review on topics critical to the success of every manager. Each book is packed with advice and inspiration from leading experts, such as Satya Nadella, Frances X. Frei, Marcus Buckingham, Adam Grant, Joan C. Williams, Roger Martin, Robert Livingston, and Katrina Lake. Company examples range from P&G, UPS, and Pfizer to Alibaba, Microsoft, and Stitch Fix. 5 Years of Must Reads from HBR: 2024 Edition brings the most current and important business conversations to your fingertips.HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

​In the realm of global innovation, STEM powers knowledge-based societies. However, ongoing gender disparities curtail the complete utilisation of human capital. As argued in the goal congruity theory, women's choices to communal goals prompts female exits from STEM. Exploring this theory in natural science and academia, two questions arise: 1) Does the'leaky pipeline'persist, and where are gaps? 2) Do female scientists leave to afford other goals? Stats show early career gender balance, but senior positions lack women. Notably, men dominate decision-making roles. Qualitative research with 26 female scientists reveals an overall positive and communal perception of natural science and academia. Moreover, the perceived affordance of communal values within science majorly contributes to the desire of female researchers to continue pursuing an academic path. These findings contradict the literature-established goal congruity theory and thus, provide an experienced-based foundation to extend the complexity of the leaky pipeline phenomenon in natural science.

Die Expedition in eine bessere Arbeitswelt der Zukunft verläuft entlang der Verbindung von HR-Tech und HR-Touch. Die Herausforderungen dieser Expedition können weder allein technologisch noch allein menschlich gemeistert werden. Dieses Buch schlägt die längst überfällige Brücke zwischen zunehmend intelligenter Technologie auf der einen Seite und zunehmend vernetzter Arbeit auf der anderen Seite. Es beschreibt, wie durch die sinnvolle Verknüpfung technologischer und zwischenmenschlicher Aspekte des People Managements eine moderne Arbeitswelt gestaltet wird. Eine Arbeitswelt, die gleichsam individuelles Wachstum fördert, lebenslanges Lernen anregt und Teamerfolg ermöglicht. Es dient als Grundlage zur technologie-optimistischen und am Menschen orientierten Gestaltung der Arbeitswelt der Zukunft. Der Autor stellt sieben grundlegende Prinzipien vor, an denen das Personalmanagement jedes Unternehmens die Umsetzung der firmenspezifischen People-Tech-Strategie ausrichten kann. 43 Anwendungsbeispiele inspirieren zum sinnvollen Einsatz intelligenter Technologie entlang des gesamten People-Experience-Life-Cycle - von Pre-Hire bis Retire.Der InhaltKernelemente der Arbeitswelt der Zukunft: Intelligente Maschinen, Plattform-basierte Ökosysteme, Kooperation Gestaltungsprinzipien der Smart-Work-ExperienceAnwendungsbeispiele: Mensch-Maschine-Kooperation in der Talentakquise, -entwicklung und -bindungDer AutorDr. Daniel Mühlbauer ist Experte für HR-IT-Lösungen und beschäftigt sich mit dem sinnvollen Einsatz moderner Technologien im Personalmanagement eines globalen Großkonzerns. Er teilt sein Wissen auf seinem Blog und YouTube-Kanal namens “HR Datenliebe”. Seine Leidenschaft gilt der Kombination aus Datenanalysen, künstlicher Intelligenz und HR-Tech zur Wegbereitung in die Zukunft des Personalmanagements. Nach abgeschlossener Promotion am Institut für Personalwirtschaft der LMU München hat er ein Start-up für People Analytics mitgegründet.

The best employees don't stick around just because they like your product, you, or their coworkers. Turnover is the pandemic of today in the world of employment and there don't appear to be too many cures. Leadership is rarely taught and the pressure on untrained managers and owners leads to the pitfalls that come with a revolving door of new faces who don't stick around long enough to earn an annual bonus. Or they do stay, and you sometimes wish they wouldn't?Sean Barnard instinctively knows how to help leaders at any level get the most out of their team members and can show you innovative ways to increase retention from the first chapter. From a middle-class background in southern England to the C - Suite in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sean tells his story in a way that leaders at all levels can easily relate. His first book is a firsthand look inside every aspect of how to manage people. He understands what it's like to be unmotivated as an hourly employee and what it takes to turn that into a loyal and happy team player who roots for the success of everyone around him, including the company he works for.Sharing a career that spans living in three countries, leading teams from Europe to the Caribbean and the United States, the reader will hear his story, with blunders, pitfalls to avoid and the huge wins that came along the way. With a genuine commitment to telling his story, readers will walk away knowing how they will be the leader they want to be and the leader their employees deserve.'