Performance management for agile organizations : overthrowing the eight management myths that hold businesses back /: overthrowing the eight management myths that hold businesses back. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tim Baker.
• Authors: Baker, Tim
• Contents: Part I: The Agile Enterprise -- 1. Profit measures the past -- Agility predicts the future -- 2. The characteristics of agility -- 3. Seven dimensions of agile performance -- Part II: Myths Blocking Agile Performance -- 4. Management Myth # 1--Job specification improves performance -- 5. Management Myth # 2--Quality systems and processes guarantee good outcomes -- 6. Management Myth # 3--The job description helps the employee understand their organizational role -- 7. Management Myth # 4--A business is best organized around functions -- 8. Management Myth # 5--A satisfied employee is a productive employee -- 9. Management Myth # 6--A loyal employee is an asset to the business -- 10. Management Myth # 7-- A technically superior workforce is a pathway to a high performing business -- 11. Management Myth # 8--Employees can't be trusted with sensitive information -- Part III: The Right Culture for Agile Performance -- 12. A new psychological contract for managing agile performance.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 658.4/04; Business; Project management; Industrial management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior; Industrial management; Project management; Business & Economics -- Management; Business & Economics -- Strategic Planning; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Business strategy; Organizational theory & behaviour; Research & development management; Management science; Personnel management; Leadership; Organization; Management; Business & Economics -- Human Resources & Personnel Management; Personnel & human resources management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319401539; 3319401521; 9783319401522
• Related ISBNs: 331940153X; 9783319401522
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 21, 2017).
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