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"Insights on management, leadership, and effective organizations, from the experts at the best business schools, skills and strategies for leading any organization to success"--Jacket.

"Richard Axelrod in Terms of Engagement, presents the engagement paradigm - that provides leaders with a practical, principle-based strategy for creating successful change outcomes." "Axelrod reveals why the old pragmatic approaches to change no longer work. He explains that the increasing availability of information, a highly educated workforce, and rising democracy makes the notion of "the few deciding for the many" not only unacceptable, but nonviable...

"Ideas Are Free shows managers how to tap all the ideas their employees have and gain significant advantage over their competitors. In today's increasingly competitive business world, only companies that are successful at managing ideas will thrive. Robinson and Schroeder have discovered, through extensive research and work with more than 300 companies - in dozens of industries, from agriculture to high-technology - the key factors that influence...

This volume examines the different ways in which businesses can improve performance by cultivating more employee involvement in their jobs and in the organization itself. The first chapters review the history and empirical research in this area and make a case for greater employee participation in the workplace. Subsequent chapters survey the varieties of employee participation - quality of work, life programmes, quality circles, gain-sharing plans,...

Denis Collins believes that participatory management systems are inevitable in democratic societies because they are ethically superior to authoritarian management systems. Managers must begin to share decision making and economic outcomes with their employees if they want to obtain long-term efficiency and effectiveness in a competitive business environment. Changes in power relationships are bound to occur in the transitional period, Collins reports,...

"The common assumption is that globalization is merging the varieties of corporate capitalism. Yet, as this book shows, corporations in Japan and the United States are responding differently to the pressures unleashed by globalization. In America, shareholders have emerged as dominant while employment is more transitory and market-oriented. In Japan, shareholders are gaining influence but employees still play a key role in corporate strategy and governance....

It is no secret that corporate America is in trouble - as are labor unions - and a principal reason is our archaic system of labor-management relations that excludes labor from participating in, and sharing responsibility for, the growth and profitability of the enterprises for which they work. In a book sure to arouse controversy in both management and labor circles, the coauthor of the widely acclaimed The Deindustrialization of America and The...