Mantras for Managers: The Dialogue with Yeti [Paperback]

The innovative book will stimulate thinking of corporate managers on key issues of organisations and management. The imaginary dialogues in the book represent the inherent conflict between logical cut-throat competitions rampant in todays world and the inevitable need to retain natural grace of values.It deals with the key issues of mission and objectives of organisations, understanding people and bringing changes in organisational culture. Future development in socio-economic sphere will be greatly influence by values and attitude of people in various organisations. Mantras for Managers is a window on the new humanism in organisational and institutional development.

Purportedly expressing the so-called new humanism in organisational and institutional development, this volume uses a series of imaginary dialogues to explore the conflict between rampant capitalism and the pressing need for some ethical input into business.

1. Why Development?.- 2.Why Organizations?.- 3.Insights on Organizations.- 4. Tools for Insights: Feelings.- 5.Tools for Insights: EUT.- 6. Of Mission and Objectives.- 7. Diagnosing the Organizational Unconscious .- 8. Organizational Unconscious: Signs and Symbols9.Understanding Organizational Culture: Values.- 10. Understanding Organizational Change.- 11. Perception of Reality and Creativity.- 12. Notes on Indian words.Prof N.K.Singh had been a Management Advisor with UNDP Headquarters in New York and studied key issues in performance, including human resource development and institutional effectiveness in the Sub-Saharan countries. A report on Human Resources and Institutional development was prepared by him along with a team of Consultants from other UN agencies and has been published by UNDP. Earlier, as Management Advisor with International Civil Aviation organization (ICAO), he did research and consultancy during 1989-91 for the governments of Tanzania, Ethiopia and Malawi, besides work at ICAO Headquarters, Montreal. l32