Organizing for the Future : The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations (The Jossey-Bass Managementseries)

Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations
(The Jossey-Bass Management Series)

by Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler, III

1 Edition
Hardcover, 312 pages
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Published by Jossey-Bass Pub
Publication date: May 1,1993
ISBN: 1555425283

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Synopsis:
Based on more than ten years of research conducted by staff and associates at the University of Southern California's Center for Effective Organizations, this book explores key issues of organizational design and identifies practical new approaches for managing complex organizations to add value and stay competitive in a changing global marketplace. The authors describe how to create an organization with high levels of employee involvement and new roles for managers. They detail the use of new organizational forms, including knowledge work and managerial teams, and structuring human resource systems around skill levels.

Card catalog description
In an era of accelerating change in the workplace, many organizational designs and management practices - created to work in a stable, predictable world - have rapidly become outmoded. And while in the past companies pursued new competitive advantages through initiatives in productivity, quality, and customer service, there is a growing belief that, in the future, organization design will be the basis for gaining competitive advantage. This book, based on more than ten years of research done at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, explores key issues of organization design and identifies practical new approaches for managing complex organizations to stay competitive in a changing global marketplace. The authors describe how to create an organization with high levels of employee involvement and new roles for managers. They detail the use of new organizational forms, including knowledge work and managerial teams, structuring human resource systems around skill levels and creating such new types of organizations as distributed staffs and virtual networks. And they explain how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Authors

Introduction: Challenges to the Established Order

By Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler III

Pt. 1. New Organizational Forms

1. The Value-Adding Corporation: Matching Structure with Strategy: By Jay R. Galbraith
2. The Business Unit of the Future: By Jay R. Galbraith
3. New Roles for the Staff Function: Strategic Support and Services: By Edward E. Lawler III, Jay R. Galbraith

Pt. 2. Organizing for Internal Effectiveness

4. Organizational Change and Learning: By Susan Albers Mohrman, Allan M. Mohrman, Jr.
5. Integrating Roles and Structure in the Lateral Organization: By Susan Albers Mohrman
6. Employee Involvement: Lessons and Predictions: By Gerald E. Ledford, Jr.
7. Creating the High-Involvement Organization: By Edward E. Lawler III
8. New Approaches to Teams and Teamwork: By Susan G. Cohen

Pt. 3. Developing and Managing Human Resources

9. Human Resource Management: Building a Strategic Partnership: By Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., Edward E. Lawler III
10. Developing Leadership: By Morgan W. McCall, Jr.

Conclusion: Effective Organizations: Using the New Logic of Organizing

By Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler III

Index

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Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations (The Jossey-Bass Management Series)

by Jay R. Galbraith, Edward E. Lawler, III

Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations
(The Jossey-Bass Management Series)