The book is a compilation of insights on management practices in industries observed, conceived and practiced in India and abroad. It covers management of machines, materials and men. Some other equally important topics on the fringe, like management of productivity, management of infrastructure and waste management have also been covered in the book.
Breaking from the convention, the author has taken liberty to include chapters on Science of Management, Knowledge Management, Making of a Manager, and Stray Thoughts on Management. Here he has played with his conviction, developed over a period of more than four decades of association with successful, professionally managed industries in India and abroad.
The compilation ends with reference to a few case studies on management, adding different dimensions to highlight perceptive analysis of the corporate world.
The most challenging aspect of management is how to engage people effectively to deliver in a consistent and innovative way. Exposure to various psychometric tools, developed by the behavioural scientists over a period of time, is of great value to the individual and the organization to assess internal mechanism so that reality on the people front can be understood and put to various practices. The book deals extensively on these features as well.
The book provides a holistic approach to all facets of management with emphasis on practical applications. It amply justifies that effective management is secured on the foundation of science through the routes of developed techniques.
The practicing managers will find the book insightful of how management has to be approached logically, rationally and intuitively. For aspiring managers, the book offers enough ideas, practices and valuable inspiration.
Ajay K. Chaubey, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Sciences and Humanities at the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Uttarakhand. He has recently published his maiden academic work, V.S. Naipaul: An Anthology of 21st Century Criticism (Atlantic, 2015). Dr. Chaubey has visited and participated in conferences and symposiums held at Nottingham Trent University, University of Leicester, and York St. John University, York (UK) during June 2014. His research papers have appeared in the journals of repute like Critical Practice, IJML, Labyrinth, Journal of AESI, Creative Forum and Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society (published by the Graduate School of English, Assumption University, Thailand).
Janmejay K. Tiwari holds Ph.D. degree on Salman Rushdie from the University of Allahabad. Currently, he is working as a freelance academician based in New Delhi.
Bishun Kumar, Ph.D. from University of Lucknow, is Assistant Professor of English in School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Babu Banarasi Das University, Lucknow. He has qualified
U-SET and UGC-NET. He has co-edited two books entitled Major Voices in New Literatures in English and Mahesh Dattani: Themes, Techniques and Issues—both from Atlantic, in 2015.
