Library and Academic Services: Leadership, Management and Collaborative Practice: Management

Introduction

Management

Management is a process of planning, organizing and coordinating workplace or client activities. Leadership and management are well aligned but require different skill sets. Nurses can utilize management skills at the bedside or in more formalized positions. Management methodologies and resources are explored.

Management topics:

Management Principles,
Roles in Management,
Management theories,
Motivational theories related to management

Management

Mintzberg, H. (2004). Enough leadership. Harvard Business Review, 82(11), 22–.
Companies embrace the notion of the single, isolated leader who is supposed to charge heroically ahead, formulating the grand strategies, making the tough decisions, pulling off the great mergers, while downsizing left and right. Frequently, such people sweep into companies where they have no roots, to save the day. They often succeed - for a year or two....
Gosling, J., & Mintzberg, H. (2003). The five minds of a manager. Harvard Business Review, 81(11), 54–137.
Managers are told: Be global and be local. Collaborate and compete. Change, perpetually, and maintain order. Make the numbers while nurturing your people. To be effective, managers need to consider the juxtapositions in order to arrive at a deep integration of these seemingly contradictory concerns. That means they must focus not only on what they have to accomplish but also on how they have to think. ...
Mintzberg, H. (2010). Managing on three planes. Leader to Leader, 2010(57), 29–33.
Top performance is “a question of building strong institutions, not creating heroic leaders. Heroic leaders get in the way of strong institutions,” Henry Mintzberg says in this interview. He focuses on his latest book, Managing, and describes how a leader manages on three planes, from the conceptual to the concrete: with information, through people, and to action directly. He also shares some frank opinions about the quality of management and leadership today.
Mintzberg, H. (1996). Musings on management. Harvard Business Review, 74(4), 61–.
Ten ideas to rile everyone who cares about management are: 1. Organizations do not have tops and bottoms. 2. It is time to delayer the delayerers. 3. Lean is mean and does not even improve long-term profits. 4. The trouble with most strategies are chief executives who believe themselves to be strategists. ...
Management Styles (Business Queensland)
As a manager, how you handle different situations in your business will depend on the style of management you use. Being a good manager involves more than just telling people what to do — it also involves choosing the right approach and management style to suit the situation.

Management Videos

The Key Differences Between Leading and Managing

Presented by Dr. John Kotter

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