Philip Stiles

Het leven is zwaar in organisaties, zowel voor managers als werknemers. Onderhandelingen over herstructurering, inkrimpen, bezuinigingen en het opnieuw focussen op de 'core business' brengen veel onzekerheid over de baanzekerheid met zich mee en verplichten de werknemers en managers hun vaardigheden constant op te krikken in deze onzekere tijden. Meer

The first detailed analysis of the internal working and the external relationships of the boards of Britain's leading companies. Responding to calls for greater scrutiny of boards of directors this book presents an in-depth examination of directors of UK organizations, drawing on the accounts of directors themselves as to their roles, influence, and the potential and limits to their power, finding boards to be important mechanisms in maintaining the strategic framework of the organization. Meer