Product Description: Praise for Productive Workplaces"Weisbord has been a major voice in the theory and practice of organization development (OD) since the early 1970's. This book is a wonderful history and reinterpretation of many of the events, schools of thought, and controversies that have punctuated the field from its beginnings...read more

Product Description: There is no legal or socially responsible action by corporations without self-management of responsibility. This study presents an innovative and realistic proposal for effective corporate self-regulation. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the U...read more

"Command and Control is failing us. There is a better way to design and manage work - a better way to make work work - but it remains unknown to the vast majority of managers." An adherent of the Toyota Production System, John Seddon explains how traditional top-down decision making within service organizations leads to managers who are detached from employees and remote from operations. He demonstrates that decision-making based on purpose-related measures (such as putting customers first and improving services) can help managers reconnect with operations, see waste, and exploit opportunities for improvement. Through extensive case material, he differentiates between command and control and systems thinking and illustrates how the latter leads to improved service, revenues, and staff morale. He also posits that the service industry is fundamentally different from manufacturing, and shows how Toyota production principles must be transformed for application in service organizations.

The maverick CEO of the Brazil-based Semco explains how he defied modern corporate logic by placing employee freedoms and benefits first over profits--a strategy that has payed off financially by cutting down on staff turnover. 20,000 first printing.

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Product Description: In Productive Workplaces Revisited, Marvin Weisbord takes the next step in exploring effective strategies for improving workplace productivity  through dignity, meaning, and community. Remarkably, in this new edition the author revisits the case studies from the first edition, Productive Workplaces, to show the long-term effects of OD interventions -- twenty-plus years after the fact and provides invaluable insights for practitioner and student alike...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Testing policies promoted by current environmental management literature, this book puts forward a new conceptual model to identify which organizational and supervisory support factors can positively influence employees to promote environmental initiatives in businesses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Most large firms are controlled by shareholders, who choose the board of directors and can replace the firms management. In rare instances, however, control over the firm rests with the workforce. Many explanations for the rarity of workers' control have been offered, but there have been few attempts to assess these hypotheses in a systematic way...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Leadership is an awesome responsibility, and it becomes particularly challenging when you need to help others learn and use new ways of thinking and behaving. If you look to the literature, dozens of books offer helpful ways of looking at leadership...read more

Product Description: This book takes a crtitical look at employee participation in organizational decision making. It is the first book to do this by integrating into one source the various facts, theories, and applications concerning participation and empowerment in organizational settings...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Drawing on network theory from the organizational sociology literature, this book examines issues related to which organizational factors determine how employees influence the budgeting process. Data were collected from managers who participate in the budgeting process at a major apparel manufacturer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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)

Based on the principles of 'Participative Design,' the authors explain why employees' participation is the key to successful corporate reorganization and present detailed case studies of major companies in which employees design and manage their own workplaces. (view table of contents)

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Explains how managers and corporate executives can get the most out of their staff by balancing strict management with empowerment (view table of contents)

Product Description: Open-book management is one of the most popular ideas for growing a business because it encourages employees at all levels to look for ways to make and save money for their company. This book is designed to help managers and supervisors involve their employees in building a more productive and profitable enterprise...read more

Product Description: Empowerment has been documented as a breakthrough opportunity for performance improvement in virtually any type of business application. The Empowerment Cookbook is the only empowerment guide offering actual ``recipes'' for successfully creating, sustaining or refocusing an empowerment initiative in any type of business...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This text focuses on market socialism and the debate among economic theorists. It argues that market socialism is the only rational form of socialism and that market socialism with labour-managed firms is the best form of market socialism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This study reviews the concepts and experiences that have marked employees' participation in the firm, within capitalist economies, over the last century. The author's reconstruction employs a comparative approach embracing the principal European countries, the United States and Japan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Leadership Guide for Partnership in the Workplace. Has someone (your boss perhaps) told you recently that you need to 'get the employees involved'? Have you been newly promoted to a supervisory position overseeing those who used to be your peers? Do you feel caught in the middle? This book acknowledges the discomfort you may feel and helps you begin the journey to empowered participation in your workplace...read more

Product Description: This two-volume set provides a selection of significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the subject of producer co-operatives and labour-managed systems.

An editor of Inc. magazine explains his management strategy, which involves opening a company's financial records to all its employees, and shows how it has positively impacted such companies as Wal-Mart and Wabash National (view table of contents)

Product Description: This text explains how to break down bureaucracy and unleash entrepreneurial spirit without harming the quality of service. It aims to show how to make every job an entrepreneurial challenge, every employee a "business" and how to get the most out of leadership and organizational learning...read more

Product Description: This text takes a critical look at employee-ownership, human resource management, and the recent changes in organizational practice and management theory. It examines how many of the ideas have developed and how they work out in practice...read more