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"A hard hitting yet hopeful look at a field concerned with renewal that is in need of renewal itself. This book is full of intelligent questions, provocative appraisals, and prescriptions for action that they serve."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, chaired professor, Harvard Business School; author, Confidence: How?Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End
"Wise, invaluable advice that the field and its practitioners should heed if the field of OD is to take its rightful place as an applied behavioral science that can make a difference in the economic and human affairs of organizations."
-Michael Beer, professor emeritus, Harvard Business School; chairman, Center for Organizational Fitness
"Few disciplines in decline have subjected themselves to so profound a self-evaluation. It should lead ?to a rejuvenation of the field. Whether or not it does, there is a great deal to learn here about organizations and relevant professional practice."
-Russell Ackoff, professor emeritus, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
"Two of the leaders of the field of OD have collaborated to present us with a compelling and controversial state of the art."
-Len Schlesinger, vice chairman and chief operating officer, Limited Brands
"The book challenges OD consultants to think broadly about their organizational roles and to assert their rightful place in organizations."
-Jean M. Bartunek, Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair Professor of Organization Studies, Boston College
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Praise for Reinventing Organization Development ""A hard hitting yet hopeful look at a field concerned with renewal that is in need of renewal itself. This book is full of intelligent questions, provocative appraisals, and prescriptions for action that they serve."" -Rosabeth Moss Kanter, chaired professor, Harvard Business School; author, Confidence: How?Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks Begin and End ""Wise, invaluable advice that the field and its practitioners should heed if the field of OD is to take its rightful place as an applied behavioral science that can make a difference in the economic and human affairs of organizations."" -Michael Beer, professor emeritus, Harvard Business School; chairman, Center for Organizational Fitness ""Few disciplines in decline have subjected themselves to so profound a self-evaluation. It should lead to a rejuvenation of the field. Whether or not it does, there is a great deal to learn here about organizations and relevant professional practice."" -Russell Ackoff, professor emeritus, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania ""Two of the leaders of the field of OD have collaborated to present us with a compelling and controversial state of the art."" -Len Schlesinger, vice chairman and chief operating officer, Limited Brands ""The book challenges OD consultants to think broadly about their organizational roles and to assert their rightful place in organizations."" -Jean M. Bartunek, Robert A. and Evelyn J. Ferris Chair Professor of Organization Studies, Boston College
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OD is in crisis and this book tells you why!.......2007-09-28
As someone who has been practicing Organizational Development for the past 20 years, I have felt like I have been in a declining profession. This book taps the knowledge and insight of top thinkers in the field and tells us why this is happening. There analysis is right on the money. People who practice and believe in OD may find the authors conclusions depressing, but I would rather know what the reality of the situation is and build from there. This is an important book for launching the dialoge about our "at-risk" profession.
Not what I expected..........2007-08-27
I love to read -- and I love to read books about Organization Development. This one has more of a text book feel which wasn't really what I expected. Honestly, I didn't get very far in the book -- maybe only into the second chapter and I was bored. I don't mean to be rude, but it just wasn't what I was looking for. It sounded like a lot of whining -- trying to figure out how to gain respect for Organization Development consultants rather than an educational book about the subject matter. Since I was reading it for pleasure, I stopped reading it... and bought a different book. I considered asking for a refund, but it's not the seller's fault that I didn't like the book that I'd purchased. Anyone want my copy?
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Corrosive work relationships are like black holes that swallow up energy that people need to do their jobs. In contrast, high-quality relationships generate and sustain energy, equipping people to do work and do it well.
Grounded in solid research, this book uses energy as a measurement to describe the power of positive and negative connections in people's experience at work. Author Jane Dutton provides three pathways for turning negative connections into positive ones that create and sustain employee resilience and flexibility, facilitate the speed and quality of learning, and build individual commitment and cooperation.
Through compelling and illustrative stories, Energize Your Workplace offers managers, executives, and human resource professionals the resources they need to build high-quality connections in the workplace.
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Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap
Marvin R. Gottlieb , and
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Managing the Workplace Survivors: Organizational Downsizing and the Commitment Gap is written for managers and other staff professionals who are charged with the responsibility of realigning the corporate culture and revitalizing survivor employees. The book helps managers and other organizational leaders understand the critical role they play in today's organization, and identifies specific strategies for increasing quality, productivity, and bottonm-line profitability among survivor employees. Organization leaders are challenged to construct dynamic strategies to empower, retain, and create incentive for the survivor employees, and to facilitate effective strategies to assure the entire organization's survival. The book is divided into two major parts: "Gaining a Perspective" and "Developing a Survivor Strategy." "Gaining a Perspective" places more emphasis on who the survivors are, where they come from, and what is happening to them. It introduces the Survivor Management Model, which outlines an approach used successfully by the authors to help companies recommit and realign their survivors. "Developing a Survivor Strategy" shifts more emphasis to recommendations about what to do with them. The Appendices are a "Manager's Toolkit" that contain several instruments and exercises that have proved effective in implementing the Survivor Management Model.
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- Transformational Learning - readable, interesting, relevant.
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Transformational Learning: Renewing Your Company Through Knowledge and Skills
Daniel R. Tobin
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In their headlong rush to transform themselves to meet the challenges of global competition, companies have invested millions in new technologies and grand reengineering schemes. In all too many cases, the outcomes have been smaller, disgruntled staffs and, from a competitive standpoint, business as usual, or worse. As Daniel R. Tobin demonstrates in this groundbreaking book, while technology may help to facilitate change, change always originates with people. That's why today's most successful businesses are those in which individuals at every level—from the mailroom to the executive suite—are committed to acquiring new knowledge and skills that will help their company win the battle for market share. While the concept of the learning organization is not new—it has been a major theme in corporate America ever since Peter Senge's 1990 classic The Fifth Discipline—until now, no single source provided the tools needed to translate that vision into everyday reality.
The first nuts-and-bolts guide to building a learning organization, Transformational Learning supplies step-by-step guidance and the tools you need to put learning organization concepts into daily practice. You'll learn how to align your group's learning initiatives with long-range company goals, develop a renewable learning system, measure the group's learning "vital signs," develop partnerships with key leaders throughout the organization, and much more. And with the help of many instructive and inspiring case studies from major North American and international companies, including Corning, PPG, Amoco, and Sun Microsystems, you'll discover how real people have successfully implemented transformational learning principles to help their organizations bounce back from crises, sustain and magnify successes, and forge a powerful new competitive edge.
Drawing upon more than 20 years of experience as a leading corporate education expert, Tobin also introduces an array of original tools and techniques that have yielded remarkable results in case after case. He describes a dynamic new model that helps companies maximize the capture and use of crucial information. He details a revolutionary approach to benchmarking that helps you zero in on and exploit the best knowledge and skill resources available both within and outside your company. And he provides a comprehensive new method for building a knowledge network and tying it effectively into your company's transformational goals.
A comprehensive guide to making learning organizational principles a practical reality in your organization, Transformational Learning is a must read for every manager, executive, and team leader.
"The solid linkage Dan Tobin forges between the core value of continuous learning and the never-ending quest for profitability is an essential extension to the idea of the Learning Organization. Small, medium, and large companies can use Tobin's ideas to create a learning strategy that directly supports corporate renewal and long-term growth." —Theodore B. Kinni Founder, The Business Reader
"To survive in this constantly changing new world, a company will have to renew itself many times in its life cycle; the key to renewal will be learning. This book is a must read for both the CEO and the training manager of the company who want to better understand their roles for that life cycle and the attainable future." —Ray Morrison, PhD Administrator, Lockheed Technical Institute
"Transformational Learning focuses people on a vision of what they need to learn to take action and ownership for changing themselves and their jobs. It is the engine that drives people to achieve their company's strategic goals . . . that is what measures the real success or failure of a corporate training function." —Joe Slezak Mercury Marine
"This is the best book I know of that can be used by leaders to build organizational commitment to understanding and achieving excellence." —James R. Marchant Vice President, Human Resources Avenor, Inc.
"Dan Tobin's Transformational Learning: Renewing Your Company Through Knowledge and Skills aids business leaders in understanding how to use information technology, not be victimized by it. I recommend that business leaders expecting to prosper beyond the next five years read this book." —Steven J. Bomba Vice President, Technology Johnson Controls, Inc.
"This immensely readable book can help improve any manufacturer, large or small." —Joan Carvell Vice President California Manufacturing Technology Center
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Transformational Learning - readable, interesting, relevant........1996-09-27
Transformational Learning is the art of orchestrating change
in an organization so that specific, measurable goals are
reached. "Transformational Learning", by Daniel Tobin, is
a practical guide to the subject, grounded in relevant
theory, and aimed at the people who have to make the change
effort successful. It is approachable from the view of
senior management, or from middle managers who don't have
visionary or committed leadership, and even from first line
managers who have a very small sphere of influence. The
chapters cover all relevant topics, and offer a message:
change *can* happen, change *can* be successful - with
thought, planning, measurement -- and with this book.
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If you have questions about how to meet the demands of the new economy, corporate and organizational agendas, and the changing workplace you will find the answers in this well-written and concise book. Reengineering the Training Function provides a plan of action rich in strategies and tactics, full of specific guidelines and tools that can be put to use immediately. Learn how successful business reengineering and training practices parallel the reengineering of business processes. Any business that wants to remain competitive in a global marketplace will find this book relevant. Put these guidelines to work immediately to conduct a strategic training audit prior to initiating any reengineering process. You can change the process of training and control the new continuous learning organization with Reengineering the Training Function.
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Excellent reading, easy to follow and understand, will use........1998-07-29
I am a graduate student, we are using this book in my class. It has great reviews in my University. Have read the first 7 chapters and want to read more and more. Trainig is an important part of any business and organizations.
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- go toward technology
- Strongly recommended for personal in HR functions.
- Recommended for all human resource executives.
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Reengineering Human Resources
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A survival guide to the human resources reengineering revolution
Sparked by the new information technologies, a revolution is about to take place in the way human resource services are organized, staffed, and delivered. To prepare HR professionals for these radical changes, Reengineering Human Resources provides a comprehensive guide to the basic concepts, processes, and technologies that are driving this change. In a clear, concise presentation illustrated with numerous real-life examples, this unique book gives the reader:
- A detailed primer on the new information technologies, including specific human resource uses of the personal computer, interactive information systems, CD-ROMs, personal digital assistants, networks, and more
- An explanation of the basic concepts of reengineering, how it can be implemented, and how to weigh costs and benefits—complete with work flow graphics and spreadsheet templates
- Detailed advice on staffing—the competencies HR professionals will need in order to succeed and how employee competencies will change with reengineered work
- Specific cases of how human resource functions will be performed after reengineering, including examples of recordkeeping, succession planning, performance management, training and development, employment practices, and more
Human resources management is on the brink of radical transformation and the instrument of that transformation is information technology.
Starting with this provocative premise, Reengineering Human Resources offers human resource professionals an eye-opening introduction to the changes that are about to affect the organization, staffing, and delivery of human resource services. For those who are prepared to take full advantage of the new technology, it will mean dramatic increases in productivity and impressive decreases in cost, as well as vastly improved services and greater client satisfaction. In a real sense, the field of human resources is undergoing a revolution.
Written by management expert Lyle M. Spencer specifically for human resource professionals, this book shows how new technologies, reengineered work processes, and retrained employees will bring about this revolution. Although it assumes no technical expertise, Reengineering Human Resources brings the reader up to speed on the latest hardware and software applications, including personal computers, interactive voice response systems, personal digital assistants, CD-ROMs, expert systems, information networks, and much more.
Not just a description of these changes, this important book provides complete "how-to" instructions for reengineering, including activity-based costing, value analysis, and work flow charting. It describes the radical new approaches to organizing work made possible by combining traditional work analysis methods with advances in information technology. Specific cases of reengineered human resource functions, including recordkeeping, employee health care benefits, performance management, training, compensation, and labor relations are illustrated with real-life examples. An entire chapter describes the ways employee competencies will change in the reengineered organizations and jobs of the future. Information on implementing these changes explains how to calculate both the costs and benefits of reengineering.
Timely, authoritative, and compelling, Reengineering Human Resources offers human resource professionals the opportunity to shape the future of their workplace and their profession.
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go toward technology.......2003-11-10
This book opens a bright and clear way to resource management for the cyber decade.
It helps us to open our eyes to new environment with it's rapid changes forced by Information technologies and prevent our losts and damages by reengineering our staff .
Strongly recommended for personal in HR functions........2002-09-16
This book draws on studies conducted by many colleagues from McBer and company, Hay management Consultants as information technology is transfoming HRM.
This book provide us to complete "how to" instructions for reengineering and description including activity-based costing,value analysis and work flow changing.
You can understand how to calculate both the costs and benfits of reengineering.
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Recommended for all human resource executives........1999-03-21
Describes how information technology is impacting the human resources function and how to reengineer work processes and retrain staff accordingly. Examines current hardware and software applications. Includes a team readiness questionnaire. Recommended for all human resource executives.
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- The best resource for improving Performance Management
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Reengineering Performance Management Breakthroughs in Achieving Strategy Through People
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Looking for the ultimate book to help reengineer the way your company manages performance? Here is a major work that lays the groundwork for successful change at virtually every step in maximizing individual, team and organizational effectiveness. It is ideal for any manager responsible for performance improvement or human resource development. The authors, both experienced in competency-based human resource development and management, provide the reader with insight into performance management as a strategic tools and change lever-not a dreaded, bureaucratic hurdle. Readers are empowered to achieve their goals faster and more effectively by mobilizing people with whom they work. Senior human resources and line managers in organizations of all sizes will find answers to many of their most challenging people-related questions in Reengineering Performance Management. Numerous case studies from companies on the cutting edge of performance management illustrate the major themes of the text. Critically peer reviewed, this book offers the benefit of successful methods that have been tried and tested over the past 50 years, along with the most advanced and up-to-date knowledge in the field of performance management.
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The best resource for improving Performance Management.......2006-10-18
I have spent months benchmarking performance Management processes to redesign my organizations and this book has every best practice out there rolled into one. It is easy to use, not filled with a bunch of HR/OD jargon and can actually be used to create a system not just talk about theory!
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The Reengineering Revolution: Critical Studies of Corporate Change
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The Reengineering Revolution reviews the significance of the Business Process Reengineering trend for management practice since the early 1990's.
Combining empirical and theoretical perspectives, David Knights
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Hugh Willmott show how both term and practice shaped the recent widely adopted policies of `downsizing', restructuring and emphasis on `process' rather than task.
Well-known contributors analyze the impact of Business Process Reengineering in a number of settings: supermarkets and the food chain; the public sector; banks.
The theoretical history of Business Process Reengineering is also detailed in relation to ideas about bureaucracy, hierarchy, transformation and design.
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A must-read if you are involved with a reengineering effort or are considering one. This guidebook's practical and applicable approach makes it the perfect hands-on tool as you redesign and re-create your targeted processes.
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An Excellent Process Engineering Summary!.......2001-05-23
What is truly worthwhile about this book is that it cuts to the chase, and gives instant answers and guidance to anyone implementing, or beginning a process reengineering project. There are many books out there that describe what process engineering is theoretically, expousing senior-level buy-in's and how the "teams" should act. This book is simply a how-to manual for development staff and consultants, not theory-carry it in your briefcase!
A process that is sure to exceed custormers expectations!.......1997-06-27
"This guidebook should be required reading for any organization considering process reengineering. It's easy to understand definitions, practical tools, and case expamples will help rebuild a process that is sure to exceed customer expectations." Terry Rakosky, Director, Black & Decker, Inc
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- A new way of thinking and fast forward 2 the future!
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Executive Guide to Business Success Through Human-Centred Systems (Executive Guides)
Andrew Ainger ,
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With the right management techniques, the introduction of human-centred systems at all levels can now provide a real competitive advantage. Technology has reached a stage where it can support, rather than dominate or replace, human knowledge, skill, and decision-making. The result - quite simply - is a more efficient, profitable, and stimulating workplace. This book, which is based on practical business experience with the Information Engineering Group, shows executives and decision-makers how to begin.
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A new way of thinking and fast forward 2 the future!.......2003-12-29
I am amazed that this book has not been picked up by the media and mad into a film! (remember - like the unionised 'USA Car Factory' some years ago?) This book is truley new way of thinking and a revolutionary way forward. It amalgamates and fuses; technology, the human condition, and (dare I say - a Christian way of thinking) into a practical and down-to-earth way of working in todays terms. FANTASTIC! what have they (Ainger et. al.) been doing since? i will be contacting them asap!
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