The information economy has forever changed the way managers see today's highly complex employees. This new ideal worker is a technically skilled individual willing to devote heart and mind - as well as hands - to drive results. At the same time, these workers must cope with the competing demands of personal responsibilities. In Leveraging the New Human Capital, Sandra Burud and Mario Tumolo us…
This is not a book about one thing. It's not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it's an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It's not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it's an impassioned plea to reinv…
TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Key for symbols Introduction 1 The new world of management From the machine age to the information age F. W. Taylor: Management as science Henri Fayol: Defining managemenT Beyond scientific management The mythology of managerial work Peter Drucker: The prophet of change Knowledge management Decision theory 2 The new world of organizat…
Would you like your staff to take more decisions on their own initiative? Would you in turn like to exercise more influence on your own boss? In this refreshing new book Dr. Coates questions the assumption that management is a downward process. He analyses what happens within the organization and sets out ways in which managers can encourage involvement and creativity. Using "real life" example…
Offering a human-systems approach to organizational transformation, shows how organizations can respond to change with intelligence and compassion. Presents a unique, comprehensive model for instituting, managing, and assessing change: the Total Transformation Management Process (TTMP). Drawing on many proven theories and models, provides an integrated process for successfully implementing syst…
Challenging managers to reexamine their assumptions about effective leadership, a study of organizations and human relations explores thirty paradoxical situations and the impact of effective leadership. 60,000 first printing.
This book bring all parties together not to analyze what's wrong with an organization but to discover its strengths; seek opportunities for change; design the changes into the organization's structure; and implement and sustain these changes. Written by four pioneers in the field, this book documents the tremendous successes of this approach as a proven program for organizational change, illust…