Productive workplaces : dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century

Marvin R. Weisbord

Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book of the Year This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind "getting everybody improving whole systems" as a response to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same as using any particular method). The themes, case studies (many revisited), and models are as relevant as ever.

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Year of publication:	c2012 ; 3rd ed., 25th anniversary (Online-Ausg.)
Authors:	Weisbord, Marvin Ross
Publisher:	San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass
Subject:	Verhalten in Organisationen \| Organizational behaviour \| Organisatorischer Wandel \| Organizational change \| Unternehmensorganisation \| Business organization \| Arbeitsmotivation \| Produktivität \| Arbeitszufriedenheit
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Extent:	Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xli, 531 p.)) ill.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	"The workplace classic, revised and expanded, including six new chapters and forty reader stories.". - Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-499) and index. - Description based on print version record Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-499) and index ""Cover""; ""Endorsement""; ""About This Book""; ""Why is this topic important?""; ""What can you achieve with this book?""; ""How is this book organized?""; ""What other Productive Workplaces resources are available?""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Other Books by Marvin R. Weisbord""; ""Updates from the Field""; ""Foreword: The Existential Question""; ""Preface: Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition""; ""Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces""; ""Purpose and Intent""; ""How Do You â€œBuild Inâ€� Follow-Up?"" ""Who Might Benefit from This Book?""""Three Major Themes""; ""Overview of the Contents""; ""What You Will NOT Find in This Edition""; ""Appreciating the Limits""; ""Part One: Mythology and Managing""; ""Chapter One: A Mythology of Organizational Change""; ""Myth 1: Changes Are Sustainable""; ""Myth 2: Training Will Fix It""; ""Myth 3: Profit Rules""; ""Myth 4: Fortune 500s Are Forever""; ""Myth 5: Organizations Learn""; ""Myth 6: Layoffs Improve Bottom Lines""; ""Myth 7: Hard Data Motivates Skeptics""; ""Myth 8: Diagnosis Solves the Problem""; ""Myth 9: The Technology-Saves-Time Myth"" ""Myth 10: Meetings Undermine Work""""Chapter Two: How I Learned to Manage by Managing""; ""Introduction to Theory Y""; ""The Initial Project: Multi-Skilled Teams""; ""Successes""; ""The Transformation of a Family Enterprise (2003)""; ""From Work Team to Team of One""; ""Part Two: Searching for Productive Workplaces""; ""Chapter Three: Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors""; ""Quaker Pacifist: Social Consciousness and Wealth""; ""Taylor the Pioneer Consultant""; ""Chapter Four: Taylor Invents a New Profession""; ""Extending Taylorism""; ""Learning from Taylorism"" ""Chapter Five: Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism""""Lewin's Contributions to Management""; ""From East Prussia to Iowa""; ""Studying Groups""; ""Chapter Six: Lewin's Legacy to Management""; ""The Power of Participation""; ""Reducing Resistance to Change""; ""Action Research Today""; ""From Research to Real Life""; ""Limits of Sensitivity Training""; ""Chapter Seven: The Transition to Experiential Learning""; ""Epilogue 2010""; ""Chapter Eight: McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development""; ""McGregor and Taylor""; ""A Family with a Mission""; ""McGregor's Influence"" ""Theories X and Y""""A New Prescription""; ""Labor Relations Manager: Dewey and Almy""; ""Chapter Nine: Theories X and Y for a New Generation""; ""McGregor at Antioch""; ""Creating a Classic""; ""A New Look at X and Y: Two Selves in Each of Us""; ""Chapter Ten: Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace""; ""Sociotechnical Systems: Choice, Not Chance""; ""Tavistock Institute""; ""Bion's Group Theory""; ""Industrial Action Research in a Yorkshire Coal Mine""; ""A Paradigm Shift""; ""Enter Emery and Open Systems""; ""Chapter Eleven: Learning to Work in a New Paradigm"" ""Work As a Systems Problem"" Productive Workplaces : Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century; Contents; Updates from the Field; Foreword : The Existential Question; Preface:Welcome to Productive Workplaces, 25th Anniversary Edition; Introduction: Getting the Most from Productive Workplaces; PART ONE Mythology and Managing; ONE A Mythology of Organizational Change; TWO How I Learned to Manage by Managing; PART TWO Searching for Productive Workplaces; THREE Scientific Management: A Tale of Two Taylors; FOUR Taylor Invents a New Profession; FIVE Action Research: Lewin Revises Taylorism SIX Lewin's Legacy to ManagementSEVEN The Transition to Experiential Learning; EIGHT McGregor and the Roots of Organization Development; NINE Theories X and Y for a New Generation; TEN Emery and Trist Redefine the Workplace; ELEVEN Learning to Work in a New Paradigm; PART THRE E Learning from Experience; TWELVE Putting Action Research to Work; THIRTEEN Rethinking Diagnosis and Action; Case 1. Food Services Turnover: Action Research and Human Resource Accounting; Case 2. Chem Corp R&D: Managers Do Their Own Feedback; Case 3. Packaging Plant: Operators Meet Expert Analysis Case 4. Solcorp: Expertise Can't Fix the Old ParadigmFOURTEEN Managing and Consulting in Permanent White Water; FIFTEEN Involving Everyone to Improve the Whole; Case 5. Medical School: Stakeholders Plan the Future; Case 6. Printing Inc.: Getting the Report Out of the Drawer; SIXTEEN Revising Theories of What Works; SEVENTEEN Making Systems Thinking Experiential; PART FOUR Integrating the Past into the Present; EIGHTEEN 21st Century Managing and Consulting; NINETEEN Changing Everything at Once; TWENTY Teamwork in a Fast-Changing World; TWENTY ONE Designing Work for Learning and Self-Control TWENTY TWO Future Search: The Whole System in the RoomTWENTY THREE Cross-Cultural Future Searching; PART FIVE Learning Then and Now; TWENTY FOUR Ten Cases Decades Later: What's Sustainable About "Change"?; TWENTY FIVE Changing the World One Meeting at a Time; TWENTY SIX The Future Never Comes, It's Already Here; References; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index;
ISBN:	978-1-283-39791-9 ; 1-283-39791-9 ; 978-1-118-09906-3 ; 978-0-470-90017-8 ; 0-470-90017-2 ; 978-0-470-90017-8 ; 1-283-40952-6
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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