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

Book 6 of 15: Jossey Bass Business & Management

Lawler III, Edward E.

 
9781555424145: The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization (Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1555424147 ISBN 13: 9781555424145
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

EDWARD E. LAWLER is professor of management and organization at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, and founder and director of the school's Center for Effective Organizations.

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

From the Inside Flap

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.

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