Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations
Buy Rights Online Buy Rights

Rights Contact Login For More Details

More About This Title Organizing for the Future: The New Logic for Managing Complex Organizations

English

JAY R. GALBRAITH is professor of management and organization and a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California.

EDWARD E. LAWLER III is founding director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, where he is professor of management and organization in the business school. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-two books, including The Ultimate Advantage (1992) and Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management (1992), both from Jossey-Bass.

English

Introduction: Challenges to the Established Order.

NEW ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS.

1. The Value Adding Corporation: Matching Structure with Strategy (Jay R. Galbraith).

2. The Business Unit of the Future (Jay R. Galbraith).

3. New Roles for the Staff: Strategic Support and Services (Edward E. Lawler III & Jay R. Galbraith).

ORGANIZING FOR INTERNAL EFFECTIVENESS.

4. Organizational Change and Learning (Susan Albers Mohrman & Allan M. Mohrman, Jr.).

5. Integrating Roles and Structure in the Lateral Organization (Susan Albers Mohrman).

6. Employee Involvement: Lessons and Predictions (Gerald E. Ledford, Jr.).

7. Creating the High-Involvement Organization (Edward E. Lawler III).

8. New Approaches to Teams and Teamwork (Susan G. Cohen).

DEVELOPING AND MANAGING HUMAN RESOURCES.

9. Human Resource Management: Building a Strategic Partnership (Allan M. Mohrman, Jr. & Edward E. Lawler III).

10. Developing Leadership (Morgan W. McCall, Jr.).

Conclusion: Effective Organizations: Using the New Logic of Organizing.

English

"This is so much more than a treatise on organizational design; it's really a study of the multiple dimensions to any successful organizational structure, starting with how value is added by any corporation. It is the most holistic study currently available of the logic behind organizations. Provocative." (Dr. Tom L. Brown, Industry Week)

"A must-read for managers who want to lead their companies to a successful journey into the 21st century." (Marilyn McCall Wiles, Capital District Business Review, Albany, NY)

loading