A guide to employee and management empowerment shows how businesses can merge the needs of both groups into a cohesive whole to improve productivity and worker satisfaction. Reprint.

Product Description: Provides a step-by-step plan to build an empowered workforce. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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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

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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

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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: 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)

Product Description: "This highly readable, practical, principle-centered book absolutely inspires honesty and caring."-- Dr. Stephen R. Covey, Author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People "The New Partnership kept me up half the night, engaged with [Melohn's] insights and humor...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Empowerment-what is it? Similar to concepts such as teamwork and employee involvement it certainly sounds like something all organizations should strive for. But how to make it happen! Daniel Quinn Mills, consultant and professor at the Harvard Business School brings the concept of empowerment to life in a unique and creative way. He uses an engaging dialogue style between two employees to translate "dry theories" of organizational change into lively and useful practices. The Empowerment Imperative clearly shows how you can effectively apply techniques such as Building Trust, Creating Visions, Setting Goals, and Using Measurement and Motivation to realize a high performance work group or organization.

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Product Description: This edited collection presents a critical assessment of quality initiative. Key issues in the theory and practice of quality management are addressed and examined, including those concerned with employee involvement, organizational change and managerial work...read more

Product Description: Asserts that empowerment is a way of improving organizational performance by making the most competent people the most influential most of the time. This book provides a model for achieving this objective and draws on examples and case studies from successful companies as illustration...read more

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Speaking directly to the team member about team life, a former coach and professional basketball player offers friendly, folksy, often humorous advice for team members in any organization dealing with difficult situations and problem players. (view table of contents)

Are you a new manager who needs concise, reliable tips on how to do your job and do it well? The New Manager's Survival Manual has those tips. Do you need to know how to make effective employee selections now? See page 47. Do you need to know how to correct an employee who's made a mistake? See page 77. Do you want to understand the basics of motivating workers? See page 93. Do you need to know how to delegate effectively and successfully? See page 111. Why is effective communication with your staff so critical? See page 145. Do you want to transform your workgroup into a self-managing team? See page 173. Why is technology so important to self-managing teams? See page 188. Why is it so important to develop trust in your workgroup or team? See page 246. (view table of contents)

Product Description: A pivotal shift in business strategy-making is taking place, assert Stephen Wall and Shannon Rye Wall. Strategy, once the exclusive province of senior management, is now the responsibility of people at every level in today's most forward-looking companies...read more