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The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization Hardcover - 1992 - 1st Edition

by Edward E. Lawler

In 1986 Edward Lawler first alerted American business to the power of high-involvement management--management that encourages employees to participate fully in the business of their employer. Then, he demonstrated how it can inspire innovation, increase cost-effectiveness, and deliver improved quality, service, and speed. Now Lawler goes one step further. Citing such thriving companies as Hewlett-Packard, General Electric, Xerox, and Motorola, he offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed--how it must look and act--to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. He details the types of management and reward systems, leadership behaviors, job design, and training programs that make high-involvement organizations really work. And he shows how to implement specific practices, such as work teams, skill-based pay, gain sharing, and improvement groups, that help create an environment where employees grow and the organization prospers.


From the rear cover

In this much-praised book, Edward Lawler offers an integrated overview of just how an organization must be designed to realize the full potential of high-involvement management. He 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. And he 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 confront directly the sort of questions that really worry most top managers." --Financial Times

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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.

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  • Title The Ultimate Advantage: Creating the High-Involvement Organization
  • Author Edward E. Lawler
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-04-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781555424145 / 1555424147
  • Weight 1.64 lbs (0.74 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Organizational effectiveness, Quality of work life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91041095
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.315

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/15/1992, Page 1491

About the author

EDWARD E. LAWLER is professor of management and organization at the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, and founder and director of the school's Center for Effective Organizations.
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