{"product_id":"designing-team-based-organizations-isbn-9780787900809","title":"Designing Team-Based Organizations","description":"\"A terrific book!\" --David A. Nadler, chairman, DeltaConsulting Group\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tackle the organizational issues related to implementing teams.Learn new designs to support the knowledge work components oforganizations. Drawing on over fifteen years of research andconsulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard,Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and TexasInstruments, the authors shows you how to create new organizationdesigns that empower teams so that they make a real difference.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You'll discover how to:\u003cbr\u003e * Design new work teams\u003cbr\u003e * Identify new roles and responsibilities\u003cbr\u003e * Manage team performance\u003cbr\u003e * Create an empowering team environment\u003cbr\u003e Over 50 tables, figures, and exhibits reinforce the practical text.Even if teams already exist at your organization, you'll use thiswell-researched guide to push your teams to higher levels ofperformance! ORGANIZATIONS AND TEAMS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Designing Organizations for Knowledge Work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Exploring the Contours of a Team-Based Organization.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e THE DESIGN SEQUENCE.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step One: Identifying Work Teams.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step Two: Specifying Integration Needs.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step Three: Clarifying Management Structure and Roles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step Four: Designing Integration Processes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Step Five: Managing Performance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e IMPLEMENTATION CONCERNS.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Identifying New Responsibilities and Skills.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Defining Empowerment for the Team Environment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing Organizational Support Systems.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Making the Transition to Team-Based Design.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Facing the Challenges Ahead. \"A terrific book! It makes a tremAndous contribution by movingforward the state of the art in organization design.\" (David A.Nadler, chairman, Delta Consulting Group Inc.)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"In an era when competitive forces demand that corporations movetoward a team-based organization, this book is must reading forexecutives. Based on careful research, it provides the best andmost comprehensive road map I have seen for designing andimplementing the paradigm shift companies must make to survive andprosper in the decades ahead.\" (Michael Beer, professor of businessadministration, Graduate School of Business Administration, HarvardUniversity)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This book is enormously important and timely. It is a scholarly,yet highly practical, guide to the future design of the 21stcentury organization--where organizations will be predominantlyteam-based and designed for high performance knowledge management.\"(Stuart S. Winby, director, Product Processes Change Management,Hewlett-Packard Company) SUSAN ALBERS MOHRMAN is a senior research scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) in the School of Business Administration at the University of Southern California. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Employee Involvement and Total Quality Management (with E. E. Lawler III, and G. E. Ledford, Jr., Jossey-Bass, 1992). SUSAN G. COHEN is a research scientist at the Center (CEO) and serves on the executive committee for the Western Academy of Management. ALLAN M. MOHRMAN is associate director and research scientist at the CEO. He has authored or coauthored several books including Large-Scale Organizational Change (with S. Mohrman, G. Ledford, E. E. Lawler III, and T. G. Cummings, Jossey-Bass, 1989). Breaks new ground in tackling the organization design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge work components of organizations. Offers a field-tested design framework to help managers, consultants, design teams, human resource specialists, and students of systems effectively support the strategic employment of teams. Drawing on over fifteen years of research and consulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and Texas Instruments, they present a groundbreaking guide to creating new organization designs that empower teams so that they make a real difference. Designing Team-Based Organizations breaks new ground in tackling the organization design issues related to the implementation of teams, with a specific focus on the new designs required to support the knowledge work components of organizations. The authors offer a field-tested design framework to help managers, consultants, design teams, human resource specialists, and students of systems effectively support the strategic employment of teams. Drawing on over fifteen years of research and consulting with such companies as Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Pacific Bell, General Mills, Pratt and Whitney, Pfizer, and Texas Instruments, they present a groundbreaking guide to creating new organization designs that empower teams so that they make a real difference. \"A terrific book! It makes a tremAndous contribution by moving forward the state of the art in organization design.\"—David A. 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