Research Catalog

Title

The ultimate advantage : creating the high-involvement organization / Edward E. Lawler III.

Author

Lawler, Edward E., III

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, ©1992.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xvii, 371 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• In 1986 Edward Lawler alerted American business to the power of the high-involvement organization--one that fosters quick adaptation and change through fewer levels of hierarchy and satisfying work relationships. The logic is simple and the results indisputable: people give more to their work when they have more say in how the company is run. Now Lawler, called "one of today's most prominent scholars" in management literature by Choice magazine, shows us that high-involvement is not just a good idea--it's an economic necessity. Rather than try to copy other nations' management styles, Lawler says, organizations should develop approaches rooted in their own cultures. He explains, "We need an alternative to the total quality management approach that builds on many of its key elements but goes beyond it to provide a competitive advantage for organizations in societies that are characterized by diversity, democracy, entrepreneurial behavior, and respect for the individual."
• The Ultimate Advantage is an informed and detailed overview of how an organization must be designed to encourage innovation, increase cost-effectiveness, and deliver enhanced quality, customer service, and speed. Lawler demonstrates how to set up work teams, improvement groups, skill-based pay systems, and other practices that can create an environment where employees grow and the organization prospers. And throughout, Lawler emphasizes the need for interrelated, organizationwide implementation so that quality comes from within, rather than being added on or "inspected in" at a later stage.

Series Statement

A Joint publication in the Jossey-Bass management series and the Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series

Uniform Title

• Jossey-Bass management series
• Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series

Subject

• Management > Employee participation
• Quality of work life
• Organizational effectiveness
• Management > Employee participation
• Organizational effectiveness
• Quality of work life
• Arbeitsqualität
• Effizienz
• Organisation
• Organisatiekunde
• management
• organization development
• workers participation
• human resources management
• corporate planning
• personnel management
• human relations
• competitiveness
• quality control
• productivity
• cost
• autonomous work group
• team work
• performance appraisal
• skill
• motivation
• work attitude
• job enrichment
• job design
• selection
• job satisfaction
• wage determination
• technology
• in service training
• management attitude
• trade union attitude
• problem solving
• Administracao de pessoal
• Employee motivation
• Gestion
• Autogestion
• Conditions de travail
• Efficacité de l'organisation
• Personnel > Participation à la gestion
• gestion
• développement de l'organisation
• participation des travailleurs
• gestion des ressources humaines
• planification d'entreprise
• gestion du personnel
• relations humaines
• compétitivité
• contrôle de qualité
• productivité
• coût
• travail en équipe autonome
• travail d'équipe
• appréciation des performances
• qualifications
• attitude à l'égard du travail
• enrichissement des tâches
• conception de postes
• sélection
• satisfaction au travail
• fixation du salaire
• technologie
• formation en cours d'emploi
• attitude patronale
• attitude syndicale
• résolution de problème
• administración
• desarrollo de la organización
• participación de los trabajadores
• administración de recursos humanos
• planificación corporativa
• administración de personal
• relaciones humanas
• competitividad
• control de calidad
• productividad
• costo
• equipo autónomo de trabajo
• trabajo en equipo
• apreciación de la actuación
• calificación
• motivación
• actitud hacia el trabajo
• revalorización del trabajo
• formulación de tareas
• selección
• satisfacción en el trabajo
• determinación del salario
• tecnología
• formación en servicio
• actitud de la dirección
• actitud sindical
• resolución de problemas
• developed countries
• pays développés
• países desarrollados

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• bibliographie.
• bibliografía.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Searching for Competitive Advantage. 1. Make Management an Advantage. 2. Choose the Right Management Style -- pt. 2. Designing Organizations, Work, and Rewards. 3. Create a High-Involvement Structure. 4. Identify Work Design Alternatives. 5. Develop Involving Work. 6. Foster Organization-Improvement Groups. 7. Pay the Person, Not the Job. 8. Reward Performance -- pt. 3. Managing Information and Human Resources. 9. Promote Open Information Channels. 10. Establish High-Involvement Management Practices. 11. Support Positive Managerial Behavior. 12. Involve Unions in the Organization -- pt. 4. Creating High-Involvement Organizations. 13. Develop High-Involvement Business Units. 14. Manage the Change Toward High-Involvement.

ISBN

• 1555424147
• 9781555424145

LCCN

91041095

OCLC

• ocm24701144
• 24701144
• SCSB-1980346

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library