Problem Based Learning

Leadership and Motivation in a Changing Business Environment - References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use; indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Web sites

• Is hierarchy unnecessary? If so, what are the alternatives? - Speech by Gerard Fairtlough at the London School of Economics (PDF file, 34 KB)(http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:3nBb8_jeonMJ:www.psych.lse.ac.uk/complexity/Seminars/2004/GerardPlenary.pdf+fairtclough&hl=en&client=firefox-a)
• Remembering Peter Drucker - from the BBC(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4459546.stm)
• Poster Boy for a New World Order - from the BBC(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4349404.stm)
• The business world according to Peter F Drucker (http://www.peter-drucker.com)
• An Appreciation: Peter Drucker, 1909-2005 - Fortune Magazine tribute (http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,1129461,00.html)
• Peter Senge and the learning organization - from infed.org (http://www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htm)
• Learning Organizations - Article by Peter Senge for the Society of Organizational Learning(http://www.solonline.org/res/kr/learningorg.html)
• A theory of human motivation - A. H. Maslow(http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm)
• Employee motivation, the organizational environment and productivity - excellent series of articles from accel-team.com(http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/index.html)
• Motivational Theory - from businessballs.com(http://www.businessballs.com/motivation.htm)
• Creative motivation - article by Edward de Bono on management-issues.com(http://www.management-issues.com/display_page.asp?section=opinion&id=2563)
• Introduction to creative thinking - from Virtual Salt(http://www.virtualsalt.com/crebook1.htm)

Textbooks

• Amabile, T. Leonard, D. Rayport J, Morley E, Silver, A, Wetlaufer, S. Drucker, P(1999) Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking. Boston. Harvard Business School Press; 1st editionISBN: 157851181X
• Chowdhury, S et al. (2000) Management 21C: Someday we'll all manage this way. London, Financial Times, Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0 273 63963 3
• Boyett, B and Boyett, B. (1998) The Guru Guide: The best ideas of the top management thinkers. New York, John Wiley. ISBN: 0-471-18242-7
• Fairtlough, G. (2005) The Three Ways of Getting Things Done: Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Responsible Autonomy in Organizations. Dorset, Triarchy Press. ISBN: 0955008107