The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization (Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t) - Hardcover

Lawler III, Edward E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555424147 ISBN 13: 9781555424145

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1992

Synopsis

Citing such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox and Motorola, Lawler offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. He shows how to implement practices to help create a prosperous environment.

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Review:

"One of the strengths of Lawler's book is its readiness to confrontdirectly the sort of questions that really worry most topmanagers."

"A valuable reference for human resource specialists, managementconsultants, and managers in search of a compass. It clearly laysout where many organizations are heading and presents the newwisdom on how to get there."

"A solid, insightful, and instructive book."

From the Back Cover:

In this much-praised book, Edward Lawler offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. He 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. And he shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill-based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups."One of the strengths of Lawler's book is its readiness to confront directly the sort of questions that really worry most top managers." --Financial Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1555424147
• ISBN 13: 9781555424145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392