The Ultimate Advantage

Creating the High-Involvement Organization

Edward E Lawler, III author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:16th Mar '92

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Offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. Details the types of management and reward systems, leadership behaviors, job design, and training programs that make high-involvement organizations really work at such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, and Xerox. Shows how to implement such specific practices as work teams, skill-based pay, gainsharing, and improvement groups.

"One of the strengths of Lawler's book is its readiness to confrontdirectly the sort of questions that really worry most topmanagers."

"A valuable reference for human resource specialists, managementconsultants, and managers in search of a compass. It clearly laysout where many organizations are heading and presents the newwisdom on how to get there."

"A solid, insightful, and instructive book."

ISBN: 9781555424145

Dimensions: 236mm x 161mm x 28mm

Weight: 658g

392 pages