Suchergebnisse

Preface to the seventh edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgements -- An introduction to management -- Managing in organisations -- Models of management -- The environment of management -- Organisation cultures and contexts -- Managing internationally -- Corporate responsibility -- Planning -- Decision making -- Managing strategy -- Managing marketing -- Case: the virgin group -- Organisation structure -- Human resource management -- Information systems and e-business -- Creativity, innovation and change -- Leading -- Influencing -- Motivating -- Communicating -- Teams -- Controlling -- Managing operations and quality -- Performance measurement and control -- Finance and budgetary control -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Glossary -- Prologue -- Part 1: The Human World -- Chapter 1: Departures -- Chapter 2: Enclosures -- Chapter 3: Boundaries and Indeterminacies -- Part 2: Women, Men, and Spirits -- Chapter 4: Zār -- Chapter 5: Possession, Marriage, and Fertility -- Chapter 6: Zaineb and Umselima: Possession as a Family Idiom -- Chapter 7: Hosts and Spirits -- Part 3: Allegories of the Spirit World -- Chapter 8: The Parallel Universe -- Chapter 9: Two Ceremonies -- Chapter 10: Arrivals: Allegory and Otherness -- References -- Index.

Psychopaths are little understood outside of the criminal image. However, as the recent global financial crisis highlighted, the behavior of a small group of managers can potentially bring down the entire western system of business. This book investigates who they are, why they do what they do and what the consequences of their presence are.

List of illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- List of frequently mentioned names -- Chronology -- Map -- Introduction -- Imperial ethos -- The Gordon cult -- Interlude 1, Zar and Islam -- Tools for a quiet crusade -- Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran -- "Unconscious anthropologists" -- Interlude 3, Spirit tribes -- Contexts -- Domestic blood and foreign spirits -- North winds and the river -- Cotton business -- The crusades -- Training bodies, colonizing minds -- Battling the "barbarous custom" of "enthusiasts and cranks" -- "More harm than good" -- The law -- Conclusion: civilizing women -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index