The ultimate advantage : creating the high-involvement organization
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The ultimate advantage : creating the high-involvement organization
(The Jossey-Bass management series)(The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series)
Jossey-Bass, c1992
1st ed
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. 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. Shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill-based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups.
Table of Contents
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.
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