The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization

ISBN-13: 9781555424145 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 392 str.

III Edward E. Lawler;Lawler

Opis

In 1986 Edward E. Lawler first alerted businesses to the power of high-involvement management - management that encourages employees to participate fully in the business of their employer. In this new book, he goes one step further. Citing such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox and Motorola, he offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed - how it must look and act - to realise the full potential of high-involvement management. And he shows how to implement practices that help create an environment where employees grow and the organization prospers.

Recenzje

"One of the strengths of Lawler′s book is its readiness to confront directly the sort of questions that really worry most top managers."

"A valuable reference for human resource specialists, management consultants, and managers in search of a compass. It clearly lays out where many organizations are heading and presents the new wisdom on how to get there."

"A solid, insightful, and instructive book."

Spis treści

Part One: Searching for Competitive Advantage.

1. Make Management an Advantage.

2. Choose the Right Management Style.

Part Two: Designing Organizations, Work, and Rewards.

3. Create a High–Involvement Structure.

4. Identify Work Design Alternatives.

5. Develop Involving Work.

6. Foster Organization–Improvement Groups.

7. Pay the Person, Not the Job.

Part Three: Managing Information and Human Resources.

9. Promote Open Information Channels.

10. Establish High–Involvement Management Practices.

11. Support Positive Managerial Behavior.

12. Involve Unions in the Organization.

Part Four: Creating High–Involvement Organizations.

13. Develop High–Involvement Business Units.

14. Manage the Change Toward High–Involvement.

O autorze

EDWARD E. LAWLER is professor of management and organization at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, and founder and director of the school′s Center for Effective Organizations.

Blurb

In this much–praised book, Edward Lawler offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high–involvement management. He details the types of management and reward systems, leadership behaviors, job design, and training programs that make high–involvement organizations really work at such thriving companies as Hewlett–Packard, General Electric, and Xerox. And he shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill–based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups."One of the strengths of Lawler′s book is its readiness to confront directly the sort of questions that really worry most top managers." ––Financial Times