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A seminal work onhuman behavior in the workplace—now completely updated

"At last! We have all been quoting Maslow for years and to now have such an excellent compilation of his seminal thoughts on management and organization comes like a timely gift from heaven. The values and principles he taught decades ago are even more relevant today." —Stephen Covey, author, The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People.

"Maslow's book is a readable, impressionistic masterpiece that extolled the virtues of collaborative, synergistic management decades ahead of its time. This edition reveals just how much the management thinkers of our day, including Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, and Peter Senge, owe to Maslow, and how much, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, management can still learn from his insights." —Andrea Gabor, author, The Man Who Discovered Quality.

"Maslow's brilliant and humane perspectives are made easily accessible in this exceptional book. It's also quite humbling—why haven't we yet actualized the truths about human nature and the nature of work?" —Margaret J. Wheatley, author, Leadership and the New Science and A Simpler Way.

"Maslow's profound concept of self-actualization could generate a Copernican Revolution of work and society, catapulting us out of what future generations will look back on as the dark ages of management." —Jim Collins, coauthor, Built to Last.

"In an age of self-directed teams, team-based improvement, and enterprisewide knowledge management, Maslow's concept of enlightened economics, resonates more today than when he originally formulated his ideas." —John Peetz, Chief Knowledge Officer, Ernst & Young LLP.

"Abraham Maslow's vision on living with ambiguity and lack of structure are profound. His humility as a scientist never let him take credit for his incredible insight into the future of business structure, let alone the value of work itself. Now, we can correct this error." —Watts Wacker, Resident Futurist, SRI International; founder, FirstMatter LLC; author, The 500 Year Delta.

"Proper management of the work lives of human beings, of the way in which they earn their living, can improve them and improve the world and in this sense be a utopian or revolutionary technique." —Abraham Maslow.

The pioneer behind the hierarchy of needs and the concept of self-actualization, Dr. Abraham Maslow was—and is—one of the world's most esteemed experts on human behavior and motivation. However, while perhaps most famous for his work in the area of humanistic psychology, his legacy of work encompasses much more, extending into the realms of business and management. Having explored and studied the relationship between human behavior and the work situation, Maslow translated the science of the mind into the art of management=an important interpretation first published in the far-sighted treatise, Eupsychian Management, and whose impact continues to be felt today. Now, this seminal work has been updated, primed to introduce new readers to—and reacquaint old admirers with—what some have called the renowned psychologist's best book.

Bringing into perspective the lasting impact of Maslow's groundbreaking principles, Maslow on Management illustrates how they have withstood the test of time to become integral components of current management practices, such as continuous improvement, Theory X, and empowerment. Offering insight into using these and other tools to effectively tackle present-day business situations, from heightened competitiveness to globalization to emerging technologies, Maslow on Management covers a wealth of timeless topics, including:

• Self-actualization—the freedom to effectuate one's own ideas, try things out, make decisions, and make mistakes
• Synergy—what is beneficial for the individual is beneficial for everyone; individual success should not occur at the expense of others; align organizational goals with personal goals
• Enlightened management policy—assume that all your people have the impulse to achieve; everyone prefers to be a prime mover rather than a passive helper; everyone wants to feel important, needed, useful, successful, and proud; there is no dominance-subordination hierarchy.

To complement Dr. Maslow's original writings and to demonstrate how his forward-thinking ideas are being played out in today's business world, Maslow on Management features interviews with Perot Systems Chairman Mort Meyerson, Non-Linear Systems founder Andrew Kay, Esalen Institute founder Michael Murphy, and other prominent figures who provide incisive commentary on subjects ranging from creativity in business to leadership lessons for the digital age.

Epitomizing the genius of its author and embodying his elegant ruminations, Maslow on Management is still as important as it was when it first appeared. A true classic, this is essential reading for all managers.

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #20242 / 本
• 発売日: 2001-11-30
• 版型: 単行本
• 447 ページ

内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
本当の「自己実現」を生む人間主義経営とはなにか。

内容（「MARC」データベースより）
いい人間、いい社会とはなにか。働く人々が精神的に健康でありえるためのマネジメントとは? 本当の「自己実現」を生む人間主義経営とはなにかを問う。ドラッカーも絶賛した最も重要な不滅の作品。

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Anyone who has sat through a psychology course has seen Abraham H. Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a pyramid capped by the highest human need of all, the need for, what Maslow famously termed, self-actualization. Since his death in 1970, Maslow's voluminous writings have made him one of the most influential thinkers in counseling psychology. He is a revered father figure to the human potential movement. But few know him as a brilliantly insightful analyst of how to lead people and make organizations more productive. Maslow on Management should change that.

In 1962, Maslow spent the summer at an electronics factory that was one of the first to try giving workers a say in organizing production. He watched and kept a journal, later published under the intimidating title Eupsychian Management. The book, which had been long out of print, has been republished with extensive commentaries as Maslow on Management.

Some of Maslow on Management is, as Warren Bennis writes in the foreword, "hilariously innocent." Reflecting on the power of well-managed workplaces to unleash creativity, Maslow suggests that the U.S. economy would benefit "if we kept all the factories running at full blast and simply gave things away." Yet his deeper point--that good management leads to good psychological health--is startlingly advanced for 1962, when the business world was still widely thought of as nurturing nothing more than soulless conformity. He was surprisingly prescient, too, in warning that participatory management taken to excess becomes sloppy and weak. While encouraging open communication, an effective leader "should have the power and the ability to keep his mouth shut," Maslow writes. He advises that gentle, permissive management is fine if workers share democratic values, but if not, "break their backs immediately."

Full of rambling, half-finished thoughts and provocative speculations, Maslow on Management is no nine-step plan for building winning work teams. But anyone seriously interested in understanding management will find the book useful as a fascinating reflection of a brilliant mind thinking deeply about the nature and purpose of work. --Barry Mitzman

カスタマーレビュー

本気で実務に活かしたいなら
元々は相当ボリュームのある、難解で根気の要る書物だったと思われます。
しかし本書では、読みやすく豊富な注釈が読み手の理解をかなり助けてくれます。
マズローの名と『自己実現』という言葉は、高校の教科書で目にするばかりか、診断士や社労士など人的資源管理に関わる国家資格でも不可避となっています。しかし多くの実務家は教科書の図をマニュアル用にコピーするか、“心が学者の理屈どおりになるわけない”と関心を持たないかです。“怪しいセミナー講師の常套句”と思う人さえいるでしょう。彼の本職が神経症の研究だという事も、知名度と比べれば知られていません。そのマズローの手になる、数少ない経営理論書です。

『自己実現』という言葉の安易な美化を、言葉を広めた本人は怒りを込め激しく非難します。擬似科学扱いされていた当時の心理学にあって、臨床や実地調査から、企業社会の現実を見据え論じています。自説の統計学的検証が不十分であると認め過信を戒めて、より精密で詳細な研究が必要だと唱えています。

気が遠くなるほど壮大な理想を追っていますが、一部で誤解されてきたような怪しい自己啓発論の元祖ではありません。斬新なるがゆえ限界があったのでしょう。人的資源論を本気で実務に活かしたいと考える方には、巷に出回る粗悪な模造品ではなく、ぜひ本書に触れる事をお勧めします。
少なくとも、安易な引用で恥をかく事はなくなります（笑。

完全なる経営書！
今のところ、わたしが読んだ経営書の中で、間違いなくナンバーワンです。

・仕事とは、利己と利他を融合させる、素晴らしい活動形態である。
・いい人間、いい管理者、いい会社が、世界をよりよいものにする。
・ひとは単純な解決策を求めがちだが、複雑であってもより正しい道を模索すべきである。
・構造化されたものの見方は、真実を見誤る可能性がある。非構造的なものの見方が重要である。

、、等々、（ちょっと経営書っぽくないですけど）素晴らしいエッセンスがぎっしり詰まっています。

物事に対して（この本では人間と経営に対して）、これほどまでに深い考察を述べた人を、わたしは知りません。もしあなたが経営者を志されるなら、経営者になる前にこの本を読んでおくことを強くお勧めします。全体論的な、そして長期的で深遠なビジョンを、あなたは手にすることができるでしょう。

マズローを、あのピラミッドだけで語るには非常にもったいない。

p.s.
訳も最高。

目から鱗が…
落ちまくりです。
自己実現が真に意味するところが余すことなく伝わってきます。
お題は，経営論ですが，明らかに人生論です。
なぜ我々は働くのか？そんな根源的な事に疑問を感じたときに
この本は，各個人なりの解答を与えてくれるはずです。
あのドラッカーが自分の過ちから覚醒することができたという

本書は古典でありながら，まったく新しい自分を発見することが
可能となる一冊になるでしょう。