The Twelve Organizational Capabilities: Valuing People at Work - Rilegato

Garratt, Bob

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ISBN 10: 000255870X ISBN 13: 9780002558709

Casa editrice: Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

‘Our people are our greatest asset’ is one of the greatest lies of working life. Bob Garratt shows how, by making it a reality, organizational efficiency, effectiveness and profitability can be successfully achieved.

Why do directors and managers design and operate organizations as if the people who comprise them do not matter? Why do so many of them have such poor attitudes, and knowledge of the theory and practice of organizing? Organizations are fundamental human institutions, yet all too often they are seen as mindless, heartless machines.

If people are to be truly valued then they, and their accumulated learning, must appear on the balance sheet as assets, rather than simply as costs which can be cut when the going gets tough.

With his revolutionary new theory of organizing Bob Garratt demonstrates the business value of treating people as unique individuals with energy, experience and commitment, rather than faceless minions.

An essential new structure and vocabulary of organizing provides the basis for research-based new methods for evaluating people’s organizational capabilities. These enable directors and managers to put people at the heart of their plans and avoid short-termism and senseless downsizing.

Backed by thirty years of academic research, his consultancy practice which reaches across the world, and exhaustive debates with academics and practitioners, Bob Garratt presents, with case studies, the patterns which emerge in the most efficient, effective and profitable organizations.

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Praise for The Fish Rots from the Head:

‘Garratt has a gift for synthesizing things in a beautifully clear and succinct way’
Charles Handy

‘No director can afford to ignore this book’
Sir Adrian Cadbury

L'autore:

Bob Garratt is editor of the Successful Manager and Strategist series and author of The Learning Organization, Learning to Lead and The Fish Rots from the Head. He has worked in many European countries, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, and has been developing management education in China and Hong Kong since 1976. He lives in north London.

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• Editore: Harpercollins Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 000255870X
• ISBN 13: 9780002558709
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208