Business Without Bosses: How Self-Managing Teams Are Building High- Performing Companies

ISBN-13: 9780471127253 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str.

Charles C. Manz;Manz;Sims

Opis

The Truth About Teams "If you're considering self-managing teams for your own business, Business Without Bosses should be on your reading list."
--Managing Office Technology "Anyone who wants to become or stay a manager needs to master this book's practical and philosophical lessons."
--Allan R. Cohen Vice President, Academic Affairs, Babson College and author, The Portable MBA in Management and Influence without Authority "The 'real-world' case studies will appeal to executives who need answers, not theory, about self-managed teams."
--William Band Vice President, Rath & Strong, Inc., management consultants and the author of Creating Value for Customers and Touchstones This insider's tour shows you how organizations including Texas Instruments, IDS Financial Services, and W. L. Gore & Associates have discarded the old concept of "boss" and flourished with a new and effective team management style. Charles C. Manz, Ph.D. and Henry P. Sims, Jr., Ph.D., the authors of SuperLeadership, use real-world examples of success and failure to guide you through the intricacies of teamwork in a variety of service and manufacturing settings and in all stages of development.

Spis treści

Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Boss as Corporate Dinosaur.

On the Road to Teams: Overcoming the Middle Management Brick Wall.

The Day–to–Day Team Experience: Roles, Behaviors, and Performance of Mature Self–Managing Teams.

The Good and the Bad of Teams: A Practical Look at Successes and Challenges.

The Early Implementation Phase: Getting Teams Started in the Office.

The Illusion of Self–Management: Using Teams to Disempower.

Self–Management Without Formal Teams: The Organization as Team.

Teams and Total Quality Management: An International Application.

The Strategy Team: Teams at the Top.

Business Without Bosses Through Teams: What Have We Learned?

Where Are We Going?.

Appendix.

Endnotes.

Index.

O autorze

CHARLES C. MANZ, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Management at Arizona State University. He is coauthor of SuperLeadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves and the author of Mastering Self–Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence.

HENRY P. SIMS, Jr. Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Maryland. He is coauthor of SuperLeadership: Leading Others to Lead Themselves, The New Leadership Paradigm, and The Thinking Organization.