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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463174003321

Autore

Smythe John

Titolo

The velvet revolution at work : the rise of employee engagement, the fall of command and control / / John Smythe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-23663-X

1-4094-4325-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (312 p.)

Disciplina

658.3/152

Soggetti

Management - Employee participation

Organizational change

Employee motivation

Corporate culture

Industrial relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Gower Book"--Cover.

First published 2013 by Gower Pub.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. What is the velvet revolution at work? -- pt. II. Strategy through people : delivering strategy and change through participative interventions that engage the right people -- pt. III. Beyond the intervention : the engaged organization.

Sommario/riassunto

What drives or delivers engaged people? Employers need to focus on creating the right conditions. Employers can't impose engagement: people need to choose to engage themselves. In The Velvet Revolution at Work, the follow-up to his best-selling The CEO: Chief Engagement Officer, John Smythe explains that the essential ingredient of the right conditions is a culture of distributed leadership which enables people at work to liberate their creativity to deliver surprisingly good results for their institution and themselves.Using models, examples and anecdotes from his client research he goes on t