Coverdale on Management by Max Taylor
Ralph Coverdale's varied and unusual life - as a Jesuit novice and soldier, psychologist and management consultant - led to a unique method of improving people's performance at work and of developing an organization to the full. Why do meetings go on for ever, circling round a problem without getting to a decision? Why are elaborate schemes devised, which anyone can see won't work? Why don't staff hear what you tell them? Why are petty failures magnified and successes neither examined nor praised? As the case studies in this book show, these questions are symptomatic of most managers' experience, whether in large companies, in charities, with professional firms, inside a research department or on a huge development project in the Third World. The book outlines the development of Coverdale training, now grown into an international consultancy, and its theory and practice.
Max Taylor is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Earlier appointments include Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at the University of St. Andrews and Professor of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, Ireland. His publications include: The Future of Terrorism (with John Horgan), 2000; Terrorist Lives (with Ethel Quayle), 1994; and The Fanatics: A Behavioural Approach to Political Violence, 1991.
P.M. Currie was educated at Cambridge and Oxford where he gained a doctorate on Islam in India, published as The Shrine and Cult of Muin al-din Chishti of Ajmer (Oxford University Press, 1989; re-issued 1993 and 2006). He has also contributed to the new edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam published by Brill. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of International Relations, St Andrews University.
P.M. Currie was educated at Cambridge and Oxford where he gained a doctorate on Islam in India, published as The Shrine and Cult of Muin al-din Chishti of Ajmer (Oxford University Press, 1989; re-issued 1993 and 2006). He has also contributed to the new edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam published by Brill. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the School of International Relations, St Andrews University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750601504 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750601507 |
| Title | Coverdale on Management |
| Author | Max Taylor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Elsevier Science & Technology |
| Year published | 1992-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
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