A critical treatise which predicts life and business in the 1990s, this volume argues that in order to profit more from business in the late 20th century readers must overturn traditional ideas of education, career and management. It also conveys a vision of new discoveries and freedoms. Charles Handy also wrote "Gods of Management", "Taking Stock", "The Future of Work" and "Understanding Organisations".
Many senior managers are faced with the decision as to whether or not they should 'go' for empowerment. Their major concern is the likely effect of empowerment on mangers, supervisors, and the organisation as a whole. Empowerment has the capacity to bring about major changes in the roles of every key player, and ultimately leads to the emergence of a new organisation. This book examines the implications for empowerment at every level, including such issues as training, career paths, company comm...
Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller
by Joel Shulman and Thomas Stallkamp
In 1957, Lester Pearson won the Nobel Peace Prize for creating the United Nations Emergency Force during the Suez crisis. The award launched Canada's enthusiasm and reputation for peacekeeping. Pearson's Peacekeepers explores the reality behind the rhetoric by offering a detailed account of the UNEF's decade-long effort to keep peace along the Egyptian-Israeli border. While the operation was a tremendous achievement, the UNEF also encountered formidable challenges and problems. This nuanced acco...
Midsized companies are often overlooked by Wall Street and mainstream media outlets, though they are an integral part of national economics. Thus it's important for national economic success to have a thriving midsized company sector. But that is not easy to do, largely because the factors that throttle growth of midsized companies can be quite different than those of their smaller and larger business brethren. Some of these factors are well known, but others can creep up on management teams and...
Large-Scale Organizational Change
by Laszlo Christopher and Francois Laugel Jean
Moving beyond the process of change Why is change so hard? Because in order to make any transformation successful, you must change more than just the structure and operations of an organization--you need to change people's behavior. And that is never easy. The Heart of Change is your guide to helping people think and feel differently in order to meet your shared goals. According to bestselling author and renowned leadership expert John Kotter and coauthor Dan Cohen, this focus on connecting wi...
Change is the buzzword for today's business leaders. But unless prepared, massive changes in the marketplace can erode a company. This volume introduces a way to ride the first curve - a company's traditional business carried out in a familiar corporate climate - to the all-important second curve of the future: new consumers, new markets and new technologies, combined to bring about sweeping, irrevocable alterations in the way every industry functions. But the art is to know whether or not what...
How to Manage Change Effectively (The Jossey-Bass management)
by Donald L Kirkpatrick
Learn how to manage change while gaining acceptance and commitment from employees. This highly-praised book combines theory and practical application in such areas as incentive plans, personnel policies, production systems, job designs and organizational goals.
The Now Revolution: 7 Shifts to Make Your Business Faster, Smarter and More Social
by Jay Baer and Amber Naslund
Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth--but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the playbook. Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth case studies, he goes on to vividly illustrate how companies are using innovative business models to seize...
Organizational Change and Innovation Processes
by Marshall Scott Poole, Andrew H Van De Ven, Kevin Dooley, and Michael E. Holmes
In a world of organizations that are in constant change, scholars have long sought to understand and explain how they change. This book introduces research methods that are specifically designed to support the development and evaluation of organizational process theories. The authors are a group of highly regarded experts who have been doing collaborative research on change and development for many years.
Sets out to provide a practical overview of how to achieve effective organizations. The book offers guidance and techniques for planning, implementing and reviewing major organizational changes and suggests how people and organizations can cope with the pressures involved.
* Offers access to www.technologybestpractices.com web site containing sample planning templates, contingency plans, policies, annual inventory worksheet, and Help Desk.* Includes strategic technology planning, and managing and training techniques* Shows how to apply technology tools to improve business.
This is a supplementary textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in organizational behaviour, organizational theory, and organizational sociology. Each chapter is written by experts in a particular industry and demonstrates both positive and negative results when specific theories are applied in the actual companies.
This guide explains how to combine the forces of information technology, culture and strategies, to create an enterprise which constantly evolves, adapts to fast-changing demands, and continually learns at all levels. The book also: explains how to integrated the three critical aspects of an organization - culture, strategy and technology - into an "intimate partnership; and presents the author's approach - "enterprise engineering" - a sophisticated provess for creating a unique "family" of chan...
Surprise is rarely a good thing in business. Unexpected developments range in their effects from inconvenient to disastrous. To avoid being blindsided, companies must develop a Competitive Early Warning system, or CEW, which combines strategic planning, competitive intelligence, and management action. Such systems let organizations manage risk more effectively and prevent ""industry dissonance"" -- when market realities outpace corporate strategies. Early Warning reveals how to: * Change strateg...
The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth (Fast Forward MBA, #11)
by Philip Walcoff
The Fast Forward MBA in Business Planning for Growth gives you a strategy for success! Is your company at a standstill, or is it growing but without the focus and strategy it needs for sustained and continued growth? Do you have an idea for a business but no idea where to start? Business planning is vital to the growth and survival of any company, but only an action-oriented plan can give your business the steady growth it needs to survive and succeed in today's business world. Whether your comp...