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The book Organizational designs for excellence seeks answers to these questions and much more. It discusses the types of management and organizational designs that enable Third World organizations to achieve excellence.
The book provides a framework and develops models for achieving organizational excellence through appropriate styles, structures, management systems, goals, strategies, and processes. What makes the book unique is that it discusses not one omnibus but six different kinds of excellence identified by the author, and the organizational designs for each developed by him:
• Competitive excellence
• Institutionalised excellence
• Rejuvenatory excellence
• Versatile excellence
• Missionary excellence
• Creative excellence
Drawing upon research in the West and the Third World, especially India, to develop and the above models, the book affirms that organizational excellence is both attainable and vitally necessary for socio-economic development.
The book includes a number of illuminating examples of organizational excellence and also presents several stunning cases of management excellence in the Third World.
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