Managing exceptionally

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mintzberg, H
• 署名单位: McGill University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.12.6.759.10081
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 759-771
• 关键词: managing; NGO; leadership; management by exception

摘要

This paper is about two managers of Red Cross refugee camps in Tanzania who manage by exception in rather exceptional circumstances. Using a model of managerial work that delineates roles carried out at the information, people, and action levels, inside and outside the unit, these managers' activities concentrate especially on communicating and controlling a chaotic situation in a steady state, at least temporarily. While many other managers appear to be moving away from conventional forms of managing-to more linking instead of leading and convincing instead of controlling, etc.-here are two managers who seem to be going the other way, precisely because their situation is so unconventionally risky. Ned Bowman's great contribution has been not just about risks and options per se, but in the risks that he himself took and the options that he himself exposed. In this spirit, the paper concludes with a plea for the opening up not simply of content, but of context.