Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Hardcover

Galbraith, Jay R.; Lawler, Edward E.

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ISBN 10: 1555425283 ISBN 13: 9781555425289

Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1993

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A Leading-Edge Look at Advanced Organizational Designs

Contributors from the Center for Effective Organizations: Susan G. Cohen, Gerald E. Ledford, Jr., Morgan W. McCall, Jr., Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., and Susan A. Mohrman.

Perhaps the most thorough look at emerging organizational designs and management techniques written to date. Based on research conducted at USC's Center for Effective Organization, this volume tells how to create a company with high levels of employee involvement and identifies revolutionary new management techniques. Knowledge organizations, senior team management, distributed staffs, and virtual networks are among the many forward-looking organizational forms and phenomena explained and explored. Shows precisely how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

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JAY R. GALBRAITH is professor of management and organization and a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California.

EDWARD E. LAWLER III is founding director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, where he is professor of management and organization in the business school. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-two books, including The Ultimate Advantage (1992) and Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management (1992), both from Jossey-Bass.

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Based on research at USC's Center for Effective Organizations, this book explores key issues of organization design and identifies practical new approaches for managing complex organizations in a changing global marketplace. It describes how to create an organization with high levels of employee involvement and new roles for managers. Detailing the use of new organizational forms including knowledge work and managerial teams, structuring human resource systems around skill levels, and creating new types of staff organizations, such as distributed staffs and virtual networks the authors explain how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

"This is so much more than a treatise on organizational design; it's really a study of the multiple dimensions to any successful organizational structure, starting with how value is added by any corporation. It is the most holistic stufy currently available of the logic behind organizations. Provocative."
Industry Week

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Explores key issues of organization design and identifies practical new approaches for managing complex organizations in a changing global marketplace. Describes how to create an organization with high levels of employee involvement and new roles for managers. Details the use of new organizational forms, including knowledge work and managerial teams, structuring human resource systems around skill levels, and creating new types of staff organizations such as distributed staffs and virtual networks. Explains how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1555425283
• ISBN 13: 9781555425289
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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