The Self-Managing Organization: How Leading Companies Are Transforming the Work of Teams for Real Impact
- List Price: $28.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 11/01/1998
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Despite all the recent efforts to redesign companies to improve productivity, quality, and organizational effectiveness, most organizations fall short of their goals. The authors of The Self Managing Organization argue that, more often than not, efforts at reengineering fail because the process is conducted in an authoritarian, top-down manner; change happens to employees, rather than with their participation. But at the leading edge of the management revolution, innovative companies are implementing Participative Design -- a radical new approach that gives the power of workplace change back to employees.
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Showing why employee involvement is key to successful corporate restructuring, the authors reveal, through in-depth case studies, how democratic decision making is working today in such pioneering companies as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Frito-Lay, Chevron, United Airlines, and Marriott. Participative Design is the wave of the future not only because of its potential to improve economic performance and to generate high-wage and high-skill jobs, but also because self-managing companies are putting dignity, caring, and meaning back into work -- values that improve our communal life.
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