Systems Approaches to Management by Michael Jackson (2000-11-30)

I lost mine in house fire and hence bought this again. One of the best book on operations management.

Well researched, written and presented. The book lives up to its claims, I have found this to be an invaluable resource for my management teams. It might be considered as a systems thinking foundation course in it own right.Excellent.

The book is great but be aware that the Kindle version is back to front, which means you need to scroll, click or tap in the opposite direction of where you want to go.I have notified amazon and hope to get a proper working ebook soon.

This is a remarkable book. Inspite of a rather stodgy title, Jackson traces the various origins of systems thinking to their sociological foundations and implications. Extensive attention is given to systems approaches outside of the normal functionalist approaches ususally found in the US. I was at first intrigued and then delighted with his examination of critical thought and post-modernist approaches to systems approaches. Implications of Foucault and Kant for organizational theory are explored. Extensive applications of Jurgen Habermas's thought are made. It does make many of the other material (e.g., Senge's Fifth Discipline) seem quite shallow indeed. It is a bit more rigorous than most of the 'organizational theory' shelf! This book deserves a place in any organizational theory class. It is an excellant example of exploring the various foundations, competing meta-theories and implications of organizational and management approaches.

The service was excellent and the product content is of hign quality.I have already finished the reading, I told a friend who bought one too.

Best survey work I have seen