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| READING LIST |
THE DISCOVERERS by Daniel Boorstin
"About the people who made the significant discoveries that have shaped the
modern era."
ESSENCE OF DECISION by Graham Allison
"Its major insight for me was that organizational behavior commonly
understood as the result of rational calculation may actually be the product of
either standard operating procedures or political processes."
FUTURE PERFECT by Stanley Davis
"His idea that business would evolve to where customers could get whatever
they wanted whenever they wanted it has become reality."
INTEGRITY by Stephen Carter
"This book had a significant influence on my research on both leadership and organizational cynicism."
THE MOTIVATION TO WORK by Frederick Herzberg, Bernard Mausner, Barbara Bloch Snyderman
"I include it because of the sense of excitement it created in me as an undergraduate student encountering the study of organizational behavior for the first time."
THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE by Tracy Kidder
"Captured the challenges, frustrations, and joyful triumphs associated with
the development of significantly new products in a way that no research study of
new-product development could ever match." (more)
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| BIOGRAPHICAL INFO |
JAMES W. DEAN JR.
Associate Dean, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
Associate Dean, master of business administration program.
Professor, management.
Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Scholar.
Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
Professor Dean holds a Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (1983), a MS from Carnegie
Mellon University (1981), and a BA from Catholic University (1978). His areas of
expertise include international management, leadership, management, organizations,
change, quality, and strategic management. As a
senior examiner he was awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Professor Dean serves as a consultant with Alcoa, Corning, DuPont, GE, Honeywell
and Westinghouse, and was the director of the National Science Foundation's
Transformations to Quality Organizations program.
Publications include "Does
Decision-Making Matter? A Study of Strategic Decision-Making Effectiveness,"
Academy of Management Journal, 1996; "The Strategic Use of Integrated Manufacturing,"
Strategic Management Journal, 1996; "Human Resource Management, Manufacturing
Strategy, and Firm Performance," Academy of Management Journal, 1996; and "Total
Quality and Management Theory," Academy of Management Review, 1994.
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