Urging readers to apply 'smart psychology' at work, the authors of Empowerment Takes More Than a Minute use numerous case studies to demonstrate the importance of communication and sharing information at work. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: McLagan and Net explain why participative governance is a major issue of our times, affecting all areas of our lives: education, business, government, families, and community organizations. In The Age of Participation they focus on participation in the workplace, blending theory and practice in numerous examples and industry models...read more

Product Description: "We cannot be a beacon to the world unless the talents of all people shine through" - Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister "They have produced a book that I believe will run for many years as the definitive work on this important subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Team building is not itself an activity, but the result of attending to the seventeen characteristics that demarcate effective teamwork. When these characteristics exist to a high degree, you have an effective team. When they do not, you have a weak team...read more

Product Description: The popular and influential concept of employee empowerment may have the emancipatory potential its supporters claim, but it also is subject to constraints and inhibitions. Potterfield calls for actions to cut through the ideological inhibitors at the corporate level and also for ways to alter the prevailing socioeconomic structure, ways to enhance the relative strength of employees an various types of organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Over 11,000 copies sold. This is the second book in the Applied Employee Engagement™ series. An "Open-Book" organization refers to the transformation of the traditional employee/employer relationship into a mutual partnership, where everyone is focused on the success of the business and rewarded based on results...read more

Product Description: Learn from the leaders: Southwest Airlines and JetBlue to S. C. Johnson and Sallie Mae. Drawing inspiration and insight from exclusive interviews with senior executives at today's most exemplary companies, including many perennial favorites on Fortune's list of the "100 Best Companies to Work For," Destination Profit delivers a fresh approach to business excellence that places people squarely at the center of the drive toward profitability and sustained competitive advantage...read more

Product Description: This text demonstrates how a low priority on learning and widespread wasteful training has stemmed from the hierarchical organization, and has been reinforced by short-term financial views. Using examples from all sizes of business, it argues that the most successful way organizations can counteract the resulting low performance is to develop a genuine team working culture...read more

Product Description: Organizational diagnosis produces the roadmaps that guide and direct organizational change interventions. To generate better understanding and appreciation of the diagnostic process, this unique volume: *Illustrates methods and models used by prominent behavioral science practitioners *Demonstrates the breadth and complexity of the process, initiated from individual, group, and organizational levels *Explores a more integrated approach to diagnosis suited to an era of sweeping organizational change The assembled authors-all experienced human resources practitioners-describe actual experiences of both the process and content of organizational diagnosis and illustrate their accounts with practical case examples...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Over the last few decades, there has been a great deal of management literature recommending the removal of firms' hierarchies and the empowerment of employees. Ivan Pongracic, Jr. examines these themes through the lenses of the economic theory of the firm...read more

Product Description: Book by Boggan, Debra, Versteeg, Anna, Rhodes, Lucien

Product Description: Responsibility helps employees feel valuable, and Empowering Employees shows managers how to create an atmosphere of responsibility­­benefiting the employer, the employees, and the managers themselves. Topics include what empowerment means, why it improves performance, and empowerment strategies that challenge and motivate employees...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Covering a broad range of topics from communications skills to teamwork to diversity and much more, Business Skills Express books are ideal for employee seminars, independent self-study, on-the-job training, and classroom-based instruction. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is about management as a balancing act. Managing business's most precious asset, its creative people, requires providing a delicate balance of structure and freedom. The author discusses identifying creative people, creativity training, employee-management conflict, and how to build a creative organizational climate...read more

Product Description: This book provides managers with a step-by-step guide to achieving empowerment in their organizations. It does this by looking at the organization as an inverted pyramid with managers leading from behind, becoming facilitators, sharing visions and breaking down traditional barriers instead of leading from the front without keeping an eye on what employees are really doing...read more

Product Description: Whether working to empower individuals, teams or the whole library, these guidelines make possible effective management of scarce resources--time, people, and money. They also help enhance your team's morale, innovation, continuous improvement, and customer service--the building blocks for funding libraries' vital and ongoing role in their communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Adult Education contradicts the theorists and practitioners who claim that empowering organizations can only be created when those at the top decide to share power. The emancipating educational processes are the tools of those who work within systems whether the issue is literacy, civil rights or democracy in the workplace...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)