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Applying management theories in the workplace

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As a professional skills trainer for the IET, I’m interested to know more about how beneficial engineers and technicians find management theories and how useful they are when put into practice.

 

Have you ever come across or been introduced to a Management or Leadership theory that you have successfully applied to the workplace?

 

What was the theory and how was it applied? 
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    For me, management theories serve to provide useful frameworks that can make sense of an organisation as it develops, changes and evolves, and to obtain a more attuned sense of self and of organisational dynamics that happen around us (structures, politics, networks, etc.).  Used appropriately models/theories can also help light the way.



    Personal favourites are McKinsey's 7's on culture, Mintzberg model of organisational configuration, Eisenhower Matrix for prioritisation, and more recently, the 'Business Model Generation' approach to service design/redesign.



    As you may suspect and I'd agree with you, I can be a junky for these things... However, like Newton's laws, they provide a basis that helps me makes sense of the world and to navigate it.
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    For me, management theories serve to provide useful frameworks that can make sense of an organisation as it develops, changes and evolves, and to obtain a more attuned sense of self and of organisational dynamics that happen around us (structures, politics, networks, etc.).  Used appropriately models/theories can also help light the way.



    Personal favourites are McKinsey's 7's on culture, Mintzberg model of organisational configuration, Eisenhower Matrix for prioritisation, and more recently, the 'Business Model Generation' approach to service design/redesign.



    As you may suspect and I'd agree with you, I can be a junky for these things... However, like Newton's laws, they provide a basis that helps me makes sense of the world and to navigate it.
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