Democratic Management The Path to Total

This book is designed to provide true democratic management practices as a viable alternative for establishing sustainable total quality with liberty and equality and to become competitive.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xv

Introduction

xvii

Part One: Understanding of the Management Practices of the Past and Present

Desirable Total Quality and Competitiveness

3

(18)

What is Quality?

4

(1)

Multiple Dimension Qualities

4

(3)

Productivity as a Quality

7

(1)

Desirable Total Quality and Competitiveness

8

(5)

Why Total Quality?

13

(6)

Relationships of Total Quality, Competitiveness and Management

19

(2)

Understanding Management

21

(8)

Management Concepts

21

(1)

Objectives of Management

22

(2)

Styles of Management

24

(1)

Determinants of Management Success

25

(2)

Management Education

27

(2)

History of Management Development and Total Quality

29

(22)

Pre-Scientific Management

30

(2)

Scientific Management

32

(4)

The Behavioral Management

36

(4)

Integrative Management Approaches

40

(2)

Contemporary Management Practices

42

(9)

Success and Failure of the Contemporary Management Practices

51

(18)

The Success of Contemporary Management Practices

51

(3)

The Failure of Contemporary Management Practices

54

(2)

Authoritarian Management Practices Are the Main Source of Inequality of Income and Wealth

56

(2)

Why Contemporary Management Practices Have to Be Changed

58

(4)

Where and How to Change?

62

(7)

Part Two: True Democratic Management Practices For Desirable Total Quality

True Democratic Management Practices

69

(16)

The Nature and Objectives of True Democratic Management

70

(2)

Major Practices of True Democratic Management

72

(1)

Stakeholders' Authority

73

(1)

Horizontal Circular Network Organizational Structure

74

(3)

Employee Ownership

77

(2)

Group Decision Making

79

(3)

Long-Term Employment

82

(3)

True Democratic Management Generates Desirable Total Quality

85

(12)

Characteristics of Real Team Relations

86

(4)

True Democratic Management and Real Team Organization

90

(7)

Part Three: Democratization of Management and its Core Factors

Democratization of Management

97

(8)

Democratization Process

98

(1)

Democratization of Core Factors

99

(6)

Democratization of Management Education

105

(16)

Nature of Management Knowledge

105

(3)

The Importance of Knowledge for Management

108

(4)

Values Knowledge is Crucial for Management Practices

112

(3)

Developing and Utilizing Values Knowledge For Management Education

115

(6)

Political Democratization

121

(14)

Recent Democratization Activities

121

(5)

Authoritarian Political Practices and the Problems

126

(1)

Representative Democratic Management Practices and the Problems

127

(2)

Democratization of Political Activities

129

(6)

Economical Democratization

135

(10)

Contemporary Economical Activities Generate Inequality

136

(1)

Free Market Economics Is Not Free

137

(2)

The Role of Government in Economics

139

(2)

Democratization of Economical Activities

141

(4)

Democratization Through Technological Development

145

(20)

The Concept of Technology

147

(1)

The Process of Technological Development

148

(6)

The Impacts of Technological Development

154

(6)

Democratization Through Technological Development

160

(5)

Utilization of Information Technology for Democratization

165

(14)

Evolution and Revolution of Information Technology

166

(2)

Information Technology, Total Quality and Competitiveness

168

(2)

How Does Information Technology Increase Total Quality?

170

(3)

Utilization of Information Technology for Democratization

173

(6)

Democratization Through Globalization

179

(10)

Globalization Increases Political Democratization

180

(2)

Globalization Increases Economical Democratization

182

(2)

Globalization Increases Social Democratization

184

(1)

Globalization Increases Technological Democratization

185

(2)

Globalization Increases Educational Democratization

187

(2)

What Can Be Done Now For Democratization

189

(8)

Educate Public for Democratization

190

(1)

Educate Yourself and Others for Democratization

190

(2)

Educate Managers for Democratization

192

(2)

Educate Parents for Democratization

194

(1)

Educate Educators for Democratization

194

(3)

References

197

(26)

About the Author

223

(2)

Index

225

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Democratic Management The Path to Total Quality with Total Liberty and Equality

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