The Organization

Author : Robert C. Townsend
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118047362
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up the Organization written by Robert C. Townsend and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it was first published more than thirty-five years ago, Up the Organization continues to top the lists of best business books by groups as diverse as the American Management Association, Strategy + Business (Booz Allen Hamilton), and The Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. 1-800-CEO-READ ranks Townsend’s bestseller first among eighty books that “every manager must read.” This commemorative edition offers a new generation the benefit of Robert Townsend’s timeless wisdom as well as reflections on his work and life by those who knew and worked with him. This groundbreaking book continues to remind us not to get mired in all those sacred organizational routines that stifle people and strangle both profits and profitability. He shows a way to humanize business and a way to have fun while making it all work better than it ever worked before.

Author : William H. Whyte
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812209265
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization Man written by William H. Whyte and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a blissful answer to postwar life with the marketing of new technologies—television, affordable cars, space travel, fast food—and lifestyles, such as carefully planned suburban communities centered around the nuclear family. William H. Whyte found this phenomenon alarming. As an editor for Fortune magazine, Whyte was well placed to observe corporate America; it became clear to him that the American belief in the perfectibility of society was shifting from one of individual initiative to one that could be achieved at the expense of the individual. With its clear analysis of contemporary working and living arrangements, The Organization Man rapidly achieved bestseller status. Since the time of the book's original publication, the American workplace has undergone massive changes. In the 1990s, the rule of large corporations seemed less relevant as small entrepreneurs made fortunes from new technologies, in the process bucking old corporate trends. In fact this "new economy" appeared to have doomed Whyte's original analysis as an artifact from a bygone day. But the recent collapse of so many startup businesses, gigantic mergers of international conglomerates, and the reality of economic globalization make The Organization Man all the more essential as background for understanding today's global market. This edition contains a new foreword by noted journalist and author Joseph Nocera. In an afterword Jenny Bell Whyte describes how The Organization Man was written.

Author : Jim Whitehurst
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 1625275277
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Organization written by Jim Whitehurst and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on open source principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration, "open management" challenges conventional business ideas about what companies are, how they run, and how they make money. This book provides the blueprint for putting it into practice in your own firm. He covers challenges that have been missing from the conversation to date, among them: how to scale engagement; how to have healthy debates that net progress; and how to attract and keep the "Social Generation" of workers. Through a mix of vibrant stories, candid lessons, and tested processes, Whitehurst shows how Red Hat has blown the traditional operating model to pieces by emerging out of a pure bottom up culture and learning how to execute it at scale. And he explains what other companies are, and need to be doing to bring this open style into all facets of the organization.

Author : Karl E. Weick
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470685328
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2 written by Karl E. Weick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves. Readers of this volume will find a wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action. The author's ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams, and the management of change. “This book engages the puzzle of impermanence in organizing. Through rich examples, evocative language, artful literature citing, and imaginative connecting, Weick re-introduces core ideas and themes around attending, interpreting, acting and learning to unlock new insights about impermanent organizing. The wisdom in this book is timeless and timely. It prods scholars and managers of organizations to complicate their views of organizing in ways that enrich thought and action.” - Jane E. Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan

Author : Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226132280
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrating the Organization written by Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a narrative approach unique to organizational studies, Czarniawska employs literary devices to uncover the hidden workings of organizations. She shows how the interpretive description of organizational worlds works as a distinct genre of social analysis, and her investigations ultimately disclose the paradoxical nature of organizational life: we follow routine in order to change, and decentralize in order to control. By confronting such paradoxes, we bring crisis to existing institutions and enable them to change.

Author : Toni Hammersley
Publisher : Weldon Owen International
ISBN 13 : 1681881225
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of Home Organization written by Toni Hammersley and published by Weldon Owen International. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “super useful” guide to making your home feel more spacious—and your life feel more manageable (Westchester Magazine). Have you ever wished you had the time and tools to organize your house in a clutter-free, design-conscious, Pinterest-worthy way? From storage solutions and cleaning tips to secret space-saving methods and expert strategies, The Complete Book of Home Organization is packed with the tips and shortcuts you need to effectively organize your home. From small spaces and apartment solutions to how to tackle a big, messy home with a 15-week total home organization challenge, this book covers it all. It spells out everything you need to de-clutter your house, store your belongings, and keep your home—and life—in tip-top shape. Organize the 30 main spaces of your home, including the living and dining spaces, bedrooms and bathrooms, guest areas, baby and kids’ rooms, utility spaces and garages, entryways and offices, patios and decks, closets and pet areas. Keep track of your pantry, holiday and craft supplies, weekly menu planning, keepsakes, and schedules. From the basement to the attic, this book covers every nook and cranny. With step-by-step instructions, detailed illustrations, and handy checklists, it’s time to say goodbye to a messy home and wasted storage space!

Author : Francis J. Gouillart
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780070244924
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming the Organization written by Francis J. Gouillart and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this #1 BusinessWeek bestseller, these influential authors reveal their revolutionary prescription for corporate metamorphosis, and outline how organizations can tap new sources of business growth via well-orchestrated, all-encompassing change. Key points are illustrated with anecdotes, case histories and summaries. Francis Gouillart and James Kelly are management director and senior vice president, respectively, at Gemini Consulting, the world's third largest management consulting firm. 15 illustrations.

Author : Andreas werr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317365127
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization of the Expert Society written by Andreas werr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often claimed that we live in an expert society, a society where more and more individuals take expert roles in increasingly narrow fields. In contrast to more traditional experts most of these new experts lack generally accepted mechanisms for the certification and legitimation of their expertise. This book focuses on these new as well as established experts and the efforts undertaken to secure and legitimate their expertise. We view these efforts as organizing attempts and study them on four different levels – the society, the market, the organization and the individual. Based on empirical studies on these four levels of analysis, The Organization of the Expert Society makes the argument that current organizing initiatives in the expert society are based in an objectifying view of expertise that risks concealing and downplaying key aspects of expertise. Well-intended organizing initiatives in the expert society thus run the risk of promoting ignorance rather than securing expertise. Focusing on a current, general and global phenomenon, the rise and organization of an expert society. The Organization of the Expert Society will be key reading for scholars, academics and policy makers in the management fields of Organizational Theory, Management Consulting, Organizations & Society, Critical Management Studies as well as the disciplines of Sociology, Political Science and Social Anthropology.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization of the United States National Space Effort written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Cuming Ringland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Organization of Voluntary Foreign Aid written by Arthur Cuming Ringland and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: