Managerial Fine-tuning

Claude Michaud and Jean-Claude Thoenig

Chapter Chapter 6 in Making Strategy and Organization Compatible, 2003, pp 95-135 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract How does general management operate when facing choice situations that require heterogeneous solutions, or when implementing action plans that may be contradictory? Integrating heterogeneity when not managing contradictions is quite a common fact of life. It is not always comfortable for managers, whose ability to sustain dialectical approaches may be low. Others may not understand why they do what they do: decentralizing at the same time that they control more, cutting the R&D costs while asking the researchers to focus more on breakthrough innovation. The present chapter deals with one major skill: building complexity as a solution to the problems of heterogeneity.

Keywords: Operational Unit; General Management; Business Unit; Middle Management; Genetically Modify Organism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230512085_6

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