All teams are not created equal : how employee empowerment really works /: how employee empowerment really works. (©1992)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lyman D. Ketchum, Eric Trist.
• Other Names: Ketchum, Lyman D; Trist, E. L
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Part I -- Inertia in Crisis; Chapter 1 -- Understanding the Problem; A Third-Lewl Diagnosis: There Is Something Wrong with the Organization of Work; Good Work and Bad Work; The Consequences of ""Bad"" Work Experience; Commitment Today; A Look Ahead; Chapter 2 -- Designing ""Good"" Work The Beginnings; Designing Innovative Plants; How the New Plants Did; Some Paradoxical Complications; Complications in Redesigning Existing Units; A Little Background; The Socio-Technical Systems Approach; The News Spreads; The Response of Corporate Management to the Early Innovations. Unions and the Early lnnovationsFrom 1975 Onward; Chapter 3 -- Organizational Paradigm and Paradigm Shift: A Whole New Way of Thinking; Organizational Paradigms; Personal Paradigm Change; A Look Ahead; Part II -- Center-Out: A New Change Model; Chapter 4 -- Senior Managers Appreciate; The Appreciation Process; Motivations to Appreciate: Conditions and Insights; Appreciating the Present; Appreciating the Future; Appreciation Outcomes: Key Ideas; Chapter 5 -- The Work of the Second Echelon; What Is It Like in Here?; Key Idea Analysis; The Buy-ln Question Leads to Strategy; Enabling and Sustaining. Recommendations for Further Action by the CenterChapter 6 -- Moving the Change Effort to the Periphery; Formulating a Strategy for Change; Where-to-Begin Strategy One: A General Call for Plans; Where-to-Begin Strategy Two: Selective Development; Where-to-Begin Strategy Three: Clustering the lnnovations; Where-to-Begin Strategy Four: Combine Intensive Change with Other Change That Will Occur Anyway; Senior Management Goes Public; Prepare the Functional Areas: Enabling Components; Prepare the Functional Areas: Sustaining Components; Part III -- New Plant Start-Ups. Chapter 7 -- Planning for the New PlantInitial Analysis; The Project Team; Chapter 8 -- Designing the New Plant; Laying the Groundwork; Designing Core Production Process Operating Teams; Pay and Its Distribution; Bringing the Design to Completion; Chapter 9 -- Making the New Plant into an Operating Reality; Attracting and Hiring the Right People; Training: After Hiring, Before Start-Up; Preparing the Start-Up Organiution; Start-Up and the First Six Months; Division/Corporate Management in the Early Days; Operating the Plant: The Post-Start-Up Period; Part IV -- Redesigning Established Plants. Chapter 10 -- Readying the Launch Pad: Getting It Right at the Plant CenterAppreciation by Plant Management; Find Out Where You Stand; What Is It Now Like in the Wider Environment?; What Is It Like in This Plant and How Did It Get This Way?; What Is Possible?; A Look at the Future; Chapter 11 -- After the Assessment; Seeking Buy-In to the Assessment; Organizingfor the Task Ahead; Making Sufficient Resources Available; When There Is a Union; The Timing of Union Involvement; First-tine Supervisors Deserve Special Attention; Chapter 12 -- Making the New Values Operational; The Redesign Task Force.
• Publisher Details: Newbury Park : Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 1992
• Copyright Date: 1992
• Extent: 1 online resource (318 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 658.4; Organizational effectiveness; Industrial organization; Teams in the workplace; Job enrichment; Quality of work life; Industrial organization; Job enrichment; Organizational effectiveness; Quality of work life; Teams in the workplace; Efficacité organisationnelle; Industrie -- Organisation, contrôle, etc; Équipes de travail; Travail -- Enrichissement; Qualité de la vie au travail; Personnel -- Habilitation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate Governance; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Development; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture; Industrial organization; Job enrichment; Organizational effectiveness; Quality of work life; Teams in the workplace; Bedrijfsorganisatie; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452245829; 1452245827
• Related ISBNs: 080394652X; 9780803946521
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-305) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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