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Getting into work

In: Beyond Management

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  • Mark Addleson

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Business books have a similar, simple agenda. They tell you how to manage people and organizations successfully. When it comes to how to run the whole operation, they have a similar, simple recipe. They start with the premise (often left unsaid) that organizations consist of two separate sets of activities—management and work—and then concentrate on management alone. Work and workers hardly feature. Managers (“above”) plan, budget, schedule, and coordinate activities; and workers (“below”) follow those plans and schedules. Managers need data and tools to solve problems. This data comes up, from below, in reports, databases, and the like. Workers need “incentives”—both “carrots” and “sticks”—to persuade them to work hard. These come down from above.

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  • Mark Addleson, 2011. "Getting into work," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Beyond Management, chapter 0, pages 8-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34341-2_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230343412_2
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