UPC: 9781555424145 | Joint Publication in the Jossey-Bass Management Series and t: The Ultimate Advantage (Hardcover)

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In 1986 Edward Lawler first alerted American business to the power of high-involvement management–management that encourages employees to participate fully in the business of their employer. Then he demonstrated how it can inspire innovation increase cost-effectiveness and deliver improved quality service and speed. Now Lawler goes one step further. Citing such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard General Electric Xerox and Motorola he offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed–how it must look and act–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. And he shows how to implement specific practices such as work teams skill-based pay gain sharing and improvement groups that help create an environment where employees grow and the organization prospers.