Designing Team Based Organizations: New Forms for Knowledge Work (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Mohrman; Cohen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078790080X ISBN 13: 9780787900809

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995

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"A terrific book!" --David A. Nadler, chairman, DeltaConsulting Group

Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams.Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components oforganizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research andconsulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard,Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and TexasInstruments, the authors shows you how to create new organizationdesigns that empower teams so that they make a real difference.

You'll discover how to:
* Design new work teams
* Identify new roles and responsibilities
* Manage team performance
* Create an empowering team environment
Over 50 tables, figures, and exhibits reinforce the practical text.Even if teams already exist at your organization, you'll use thiswell-researched guide to push your teams to higher levels ofperformance!

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SUSAN ALBERS MOHRMAN is a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) in the School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management (with E. E. Lawler III, and G. E. Ledford, Jr., Jossey-Bass, 1992). SUSAN G. COHEN is a research scientist at the Center (CEO) and serves on the executive committee for the Western Academy of Management. ALLAN M. MOHRMAN is associate director and research scientist at the CEO. He has authored or coauthored several books including Large-Scale Organizational Change (with S. Mohrman, G. Ledford, E. E. Lawler III, and T. G. Cummings, Jossey-Bass, 1989).

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Designing Team-Based Organizations breaks new ground in tackling the organization design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge work components of organizations. The authors offer a field-tested design framework to help managers, consultants, design teams, human resource specialists, and students of systems effectively support the strategic employment of teams. Drawing on over fifteen years of research and consulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and Texas Instruments, they present a groundbreaking guide to creating new organization designs that empower teams so that they make a real difference. "A terrific book! It makes a tremAndous contribution by moving forward the state of the art in organization design." David A. Nadler, chairman, Delta Consulting Group, Inc.

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Breaks new ground in tackling the organization design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge work components of organizations. Offers a field-tested design framework to help managers, consultants, design teams, human resource specialists, and students of systems effectively support the strategic employment of teams. Drawing on over fifteen years of research and consulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and Texas Instruments, they present a groundbreaking guide to creating new organization designs that empower teams so that they make a real difference.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 078790080X
• ISBN 13: 9780787900809
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 420
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