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Author Abeywickrama, Kenneth.

Title Adventures in management : a saga of managing in a developing country / Kenneth Abeywickrama.

Publication Info. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Response Books, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents Managing amid chaos -- Coping with chaos -- Proletarian power -- Learning from subordinates -- Class and caste systems -- Good governance and weak managers -- The great divide in a business -- Sometimes, managers are too human -- Searching for transparency -- Crossing the class barrier -- Junior, eschew the limelight -- The importance of networking -- Middle East sketches: Saudi and Yemen -- Middle East sketches: the Gulf and Afghanistan -- Multinationals are good for you -- Public services can be managed -- Public service management -- Meeting the people -- Making a quick buck -- Redeeming promises -- Getting people to work -- Re-programming people -- More encounters with politicians -- Image building -- Saving the forests -- Mending the system -- A parting of ways -- Epilogue.
Summary Personal experiences of an international management consultant from Sri Lanka.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Management -- Developing countries -- Case studies.
Management.
Developing countries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Case studies.
Electronic books -- Case studies.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Abeywickrama, Kenneth. Adventures in management. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Response Books, 2007 9780761935506 0761935509 (DLC) 2006035817 (OCoLC)76073605
ISBN 9788178299600 (electronic book)
8178299607 (electronic book)
9780761935506 (paper back)
0761935509 (paper back)