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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461747303321

Autore

Weisbord Marvin Ross

Titolo

Productive workplaces [[electronic resource] ] : dignity, meaning, and community in the 21st century / / Marvin R. Weisbord

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, Calif., : Jossey-Bass, c2012

ISBN

1-118-09908-7

1-283-39791-9

9786613397911

1-118-09906-0

Edizione

[25th anniversary ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (575 p.)

Disciplina

658.3/14

658.314

Soggetti

Industrial management

Industrial management - Employee participation

Quality of work life

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The workplace classic, revised and expanded, including six new chapters and forty reader stories."

Cover has 3rd ed.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Mythology and managing -- pt. 2. Searching for productive workplaces -- pt. 3. Learning from experience -- pt. 4. Integrating the past into the present -- pt. 5. Learning then and now.

Sommario/riassunto

Strategy and Business 2012 Organizational Culture Book of the Year This third edition of the classic resource, Productive Workplaces is smart, well-written and well-researched, thoughtful, somewhat provocative, and a one-of-a-kind review of the integration of economics, technology, and people. It covers such topics as: the work on self as integral to organizational change; the revision of Lewinian concepts for a new era; and the history behind "getting everybody improving whole systems" as a response to fast change and increasing diversity (not the same as using any