Productive Workplaces: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century: 25th Anniversary Edition - Rilegato

Weisbord, Marvin R.

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ISBN 10: 0470900172 ISBN 13: 9780470900178

Casa editrice: Pfeiffer & Co, 2011

Riassunto

Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book ofthe Year

This third edition of the classic resource, ProductiveWorkplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched,thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of theintegration of economics, technology, and people. It covers suchtopics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change;the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the historybehind “getting everybody improving whole systems” as aresponse to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same asusing any particular method). The themes, case studies (manyrevisited), and models are as relevant as ever.

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L'autore:

Marvin Weisbord is co-director of Future Search Network, an international non-profit service organization. He also is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Organizational Dynamics Graduate Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, resource faculty in the Organization and Systems Renewal Program at Seattle University, and a fellow of the World Academy of Productivity Science. During 50 years as a manager, consultant, researcher and teacher he has worked with businesses, NGO's, medical schools and hospitals. He was for more than 20 years a partner in the consulting firm Block Petrella Weisbord and a member of NTL Institute and the European Institute for Transnational Studies. He is the author of Productive Workplaces, 3rd Edition (2012), Discovering Common Ground (1992), Organizational Diagnosis (1978), and co-author with Sandra Janoff of Future Search, 3rd Edition (2010) and Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! (2007). He has a Lifetime Achievement award from the OD Network which voted Productive Workplaces one of the most influential books of the past 40 years.

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Productive Workplaces

It's been twenty-five years since the publication of MarvinWeisbord's classic book Productive Workplaces. This third editionof the bestselling text revises that thoughtful, well-written,well-researched, somewhat provocative, one-of-a-kind inquiry intothe integration of economics, technology and people. Weisbord showshow "experts solving problems" evolved toward "getting everybodyimproving whole systems," and why the latter strategy is the onlyone likely to satisfy you in a diverse world of non-stopchange.

From his work in corporations and medical schools, Weisborddemonstrates how novel practices grounded in scientific management,participative management, and sociotechnical systems—all basedon shared values of ration- al cooperation—became obsoleteover time. He traces today's practices back more than 100 years,using his experiences as manager and consultant to illuminate whatworks and what doesn't. Reviewing the influence on workplaces ofFrederick Taylor, Kurt Lewin, Douglas McGregor, Eric Trist, andFred Emery, the author encourages you to explore their evolvingchange theories in concert with your own values.

Against the mindless repetition of shopworn techniques, Weisbordjuxtaposes effective methods for getting everybody improving thewhole. He goes further, advocating work on self—e.g.,awareness of your own assumptions about human nature—as thebedrock for change strategies that trump "shorter, faster,cheaper." His themes, illustrative case studies, and useful modelscome across as relevant today as they were a quarter of a centuryago.

This third edition includes many new features—a robustInstructor's Manual, a revisioning of organization developmentmyths, a critical appreciation of new large group methods, casestudy follow-ups across 15 to 30 years, and 40 personal essays bypractitioners influenced by earlier editions. Their writings showhow the themes and values they share with Weisbord influencecurrent practices around the world.

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• Editore: Pfeiffer & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470900172
• ISBN 13: 9780470900178
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 531