Download or read book How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead written by Ralph Stayer and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are your employees like a synchronized "V" of geese in flight-sharing goals and taking turns leading? Or are they more like a herd of buffalo-blindly following you and standing around awaiting instructions? If they're like buffalo, their passivity and lack of initiative could doom your company. In How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead, you'll discover how to transform buffalo into geese-by reshaping organizational systems and redefining employees' expectations about what it takes to succeed. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
Download or read book No Fear Management written by Harry Chambers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-12-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Fear Management tackles the problem of what the authors dub "Third Reich Management." You'll learn the signs of abusive management styles and how they can not only destroy the morale of a company, but how they can decrease its profits as well. Best of all, you'll learn how to drive dysfunctional management out of your company and enjoy the results of a positive work environment. No Fear Management is written for today's professionals to clearly identify what is needed to succeed in today's workplace. This book serves as a guide for the development of the people skills needed to ensure that a business is successful in the changing work environment of the future. Management styles that are dictatorial, insensitive, uncaring, and abusive cannot bring success to organizations in the interdependent global economy of the 21st century. The rules have changed in the new American workplace. This book shows you how to play today's game by today's rules.
Download or read book Theoretical Orientations and Practical Applications of Psychological Ownership written by Chantal Olckers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares the theoretical advancements that have been made regarding psychological ownership since the development of the construct and specifically the practical applications within multi-cultural and cross-cultural environments. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the field, this book serves as a cutting-edge benchmark for human resource management specialists, industrial psychologists, as well as students in positive organizational psychology and professionals in other fields. This book follows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends in psychological ownership. Offering practical tools of how the psychological ownership of employees could be developed in the workplace to not only enhance the performance of organisations, but to increase the commitment of employees and influence the intentions of skilled employees to remain with their organisations.
Download or read book F W Taylor written by John Cunningham Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the volumes on Henri Fayol, this next mini-set in the series focuses on F.W. Taylor, the initiator of "scientific management". Taylor set out to transform what had previously been a crude art form in to a firm body of knowledge.
Download or read book Reinventing HRM written by Ronald J. Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human resources (HR) field is in a time of format and self-reflection. This significant text directly addresses the reasons why human resource management has not received its due. It asks: What can be done about this? Why is it critical to continued organizational performance and innovation? What are its benefits? The authors review the most current thinking on HR initiatives associated with organizational performance and investigate how the field will need to mobilize in new ways to meet the demand of this period of time. With contributions from key thinkers, this is one of the most important books on HRM available.
Download or read book Reinventing Human Resource Management written by Ronald J. Burke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of this text review the most current thinking on HR initiatives associated with current organisational performance and investigate how the field will need to mobilise in new ways to meet the demands of the future.
Download or read book Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations written by Ralph Brody and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its Third Edition, Effectively Managing Human Service Organizations continues to provide invaluable advice for achieving managerial success. Ralph Brody dissects and diagnoses common workplace dilemmas, arming practicing managers with the skills to implement positive changes in their organizations. While retaining much of the valuable information from the previous editions, the Third Edition adds up-to-date information and ideas to chapters on developing leadership, planning strategically, solving organizational problems, addressing challenging employee situations, monitoring financial statements, improving internal and external communications, and obtaining funding from private foundations. Easy to read, the book contains hundreds of real-life examples and specific guidance in developing skills necessary to manage large and small organizations.
Download or read book Complementary Management written by Boris Kaehler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Complementary Management Model. Building on extensive theoretical considerations on management and leadership, it outlines the seven elements of the model: the management actors (1) jointly fulfil management tasks (2) serving two management functions (3) by performing management routines (4) and applying formal management instruments (5), which requires management resources (6) and management unit structures (7). The key mechanisms of Complementary Management include the primacy of employee self-leadership, compensatory interventions of the line manager in the absence of such self-steerage, and active roles for senior managers and HR advisors in the management/leadership process. The Complementary Leadership Model is practice-oriented and offers a coherent conceptual basis for corporate models (= principles and guidelines) of management and leadership. The book describes the process for developing and introducing such guidelines and backs this up with project recommendations. It is aimed at all those interested in theory, but especially HR professionals and managers who shape management and leadership in their organizations and are looking for compelling theoretical foundations for their work.
Download or read book A Guide to Success for Technical Managers written by Elizabeth Treher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supervisory Skills for the Technical Manager: A Guide to Success focuses exclusively on the dynamics of being a technical manager such as a scientist, programmer, or engineer. An R&D environment demands modified management techniques and this book explores how to do so. Drawing of years of experience to provide technical managers with various tools and ways to apply them in supervisory situation, this essential title includes exercises, templates and checklists to accelerate their uses and applications on the job. In addition, case studies are included throughout to thoroughly explain and explore the concepts discussed. Key topics include handing the transition to supervising others in research and development, the characteristics needed to motivate personnel in a R&D environment as compared to other areas of business are detailed. The pitfalls and challenges of managing technical personnel, how delegating can build an effective team that can produce superior results, and how to monitor the work of previously independent personnel are also discussed.
Download or read book Demystifying Organizational Learning written by Raanan Lipshitz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a solid, research-based conceptual framework that demystifies organizational learning and bridges the gap between theory and practice. Using an integrative approach, authors Raanan Lipshitz, Victor Friedman and Micha Popper provide practitioners and researchers with tools for understanding organizational learning under real-world conditions. Key Features: Tackles the problem of mystification: A clear message is presented that organizational learning and related concepts have been mystified in a way that is unnecessary and dysfunctional to both theory and practice. This book provides a unique set of tools for understanding, promoting, and studying organizational learning. Introduces an integrative theme that addresses three key questions: How can organizations actually learn? What is the key for productive organizational learning? When is productive organizational learning likely to occur? Answering these questions is the key to clarifying the conceptual confusion that plagues the related fields of organizational learning, learning organizations, and knowledge management. Illuminates organizational reality: All of the concepts presented in the book are illustrated through concrete case examples. Detailed analyses are provided of both successful and unsuccessful applications of organizational learning. In addition, examples of interventions to develop organizational learning are included to help managers and consultants. Intended Audience: This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Organizational Behavior in the departments of Management, Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Sociology.
Download or read book Complex Adaptive Leadership written by Nick Obolensky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication, Complex Adaptive Leadership has become a Gower bestseller that has been taught in corporate leadership programmes, business schools and universities around the world to high acclaim. In this updated paperback edition, Nick Obolensky argues that leadership should not be something only exercised by nominated leaders. It is a complex dynamic process involving all those engaged in a particular enterprise. The theoretical background to this lies in complexity science and chaos theory - spoken and written about in the context of leadership for the last 20 years, but still little understood. We all seem intuitively to know leadership 'isn't what it used to be' but we still cling to old assumptions which look anachronistic in changing and challenging times. Nick Obolensky has practised, researched and taught leadership in the public, private and voluntary sectors. In this exciting book he brings together his knowledge of theory, his own experience, and the results of 19 years of research involving 2,500 executives in 40 countries around the world. The main conclusion from that research is that the more complex things become, the less traditional directive leadership is needed. Those operating in the real world, nonetheless, need ways of coping. The book is focused on helping practitioners struggling to interpret and react to increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) times. The book will particularly appeal to practitioners wishing to improve their leadership effectiveness as well as for students and researchers in the field of leadership.
Download or read book Putting Our Differences to Work written by Debbe Kennedy and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows readers how to turn various kinds of differences into competitive advantages, from differences in race, gender, age, national origin and sexual orientation to differences in experience, position, goals, competencies, working habits and management style.
Download or read book Quality Improvement written by William Roth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality improvement: it's an attractive concept on paper. So why do the vast majority of quality improvement efforts fail? William Roth knows from experience: as a Ph.D in systems theory, an ex-corporate manager, a professor-and the designer (with the AQP) of a national program to deliver training for quality credentials in the systems approach. His belief: enduring quality improvement is an "all or nothing" situation-requiring a systemic approach, with all the key components and integrations in place and fully integrated right from the start. Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective explains the sometimes surprising historic roots of the quality improvement movement, and outlines the systems theory on which successful models must be built. Readers then gain access to the hands-on, nuts-and-bolts, how-to-get-it-done details of the five critical phases. Three case studies (two in industry, one in health care) support this traditional but currently shunned model. Along with his unique unified view of quality improvement, Roth explains why it is shunned, and why alternative approaches usually do not produce the desired results. Key obstacles to success are directly identified-top-level management, local union leaders, management education. The ultimate culprit, though, is culture-to which Roth suggests how to move organizations in the right direction, from a systems perspective. With one of the most comprehensive overviews of quality management essentials in one volume, Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective balances theory and modeling with the details of real-life implementation and success.
Download or read book Culture written by John Middleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-04-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fast track route to mastering culture and culture change Covers the key areas of culture, from how culture evolves andwhy different companies have different cultures to culturaldiagnosis and implementing successful change Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successfulbusinesses, including Amazon.com, EDS, Honda and Nissan, and ideasfrom the smartest thinkers, including Edgar Schein, Charles Handy,Geert Hofstede and Gareth Morgan. Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensiveresources guide
Download or read book Out of the Box Thinking for Successful Managers written by William F. Roth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the author‘s decades of experience consulting in the corporate world and teaching management theory at the university level, he has often questioned many modern-day management practices. For example, why do so many companies have evaluation and reward systems that force employees to compete against each other while these same organizations p
Download or read book The Organizational Learning Cycle written by Nancy M. Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Organizational Learning Cycle was the first book to provide the theory that underpins organizational learning. Its sophisticated approach enabled readers to not only understand how, but more importantly why, organizations are able to learn. This new edition takes the original concepts and theories and shows how they might, and are, being put into action. With five new or completely revised chapters, Nancy Dixon describes the kind of infrastructure organizations need to put in place; there are examples of knowledge databases, whole systems in the room processes and after-action reviews originating from organizations that are making real progress with these ideas. A clearer relationship between organizational learning and more participative forms of organizational governance is drawn, along with responsibilities that employees need to take on to enable, and partake in, collective learning. With new case material from BP, the US Army, Ernst and Young, and the Bank of Montreal, for example, this book shows how you can make use of the collective reasoning, intelligence and knowledge of the organization and channel it into its ongoing and future development.
Download or read book Dreamcrafting written by Paul Levesque and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2003-02-16 with total page 2486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dreamer's guide to turning fantasies into reality teaches five "macroskills"--Aspiration, motivation, projection, inclusion, and application--required to achieve dreams in the real world.
