Management Trends and Fads (May or may not be useful)

Management Fads

What it is?

A change in philosophy or operations implementation by a business, organisation or institution
Often led by management on employees with little or no input from employees (Usually at the point of time, is popular with managerial circles and may fall away from favour

Common Traits for these ideas

Leads to New Jargons for existing processes
External consultants with these specialisations for these fads
Certification or appraisal process performed by external agency for a fee
Amending job titles of existing examples to include references to the fad
Claims of a measurable business improvement via measurement of a metric e.g. KPI that is defined by the fad itself
Internal sponsoring department or individual that gains influence due to fad's implementation
Big Words and Complex phrases (Puffery)

Example of Management Theories, Practices and Fads

Management by objectives
Matrix management
Theory Z
One-minute management
Management by wandering around
Total quality management
Business process reengineering
Delayering
Empowerment
360-degree feedback
Re-engineering
Teamwork
ISO 9000
Six Sigma[4]
the tendency to replace every occurrence of "data" in compound managerial terminology with "information", see e.g. information integration vs. data integration
Knowledge management [5]
Agile software development[6]
Hype Cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

References

What is it?

a motivational fable, parable or fictional story that shares a lesson or lessons
Intended to be applied in the business world
Aim to improve the 'organisational Culture'
peaked in early 2000

Business Fables

References