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A 5 page analysis of the book The Manager's Bookshelf: A Mosaic of Contemporary Views, edited by Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom. In this book, the editors introduce the serious business student to roughly forty of the most recently published management books via essays summarizing the main points of the books. The result is a rich collage of multiple perspectives that cuts through the hype to give a concise understanding of the current thinking on management practices. No additional sources cited.
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have frequently made it onto best-seller lists. While some of these books are extraordinarily useful, others are merely "feel good" expositions that point out some positive aspects of American management
practices. In this highly useful collection of essays, editors Jon L. Pierce and John W. Newstrom introduce the serious business student to roughly forty of the most recently published management
books. The result is a rich collage of multiple perspectives that cuts through the hype to give a concise understanding of the current thinking on management practices. The first
grouping of essays in Part 1 come under the heading "Understanding and Using the Best Sellers." Pierce and Newstrom do much more then just present summaries of current management books.
They organize the essays in such a way that they bring forth the readers critical faculties in evaluating the merit of the ideas being presented. In this section they present
the reasons why management books are proliferating as well as guidelines for necessary criteria that can be used in critiquing the content of these popular books. The essays in
this section also give insight into the topic of management itself by providing an overview and some history on how the field of management developed. For example, Peter F.
Druckers essay, "The New Realities," places management within a historical context. He points out that the field of management is extremely new. Eighty years ago, at the beginning of World
War I, a few business thinkers were just "becoming aware of managements existence" (Drucker 27). He goes on to make the point that it is the field of management that
allows businesses to employ so many people with specialized knowledge who cooperate towards reaching specific goals. Never before in history have so many highly educated people been able to find
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