Company Profiles, Management, Strategy & Competition, Entrepreneurship, Processes & Infrastructure, Human Resources & Personnel Management 

A Leading-Edge Look at Advanced Organizational Designs Contributors from the Center for Effective Organizations: Susan G. Cohen, Gerald E. Ledford, Jr., Morgan W. McCall, Jr., Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., and Susan A. Mohrman. Perhaps the most thorough look at emerging organizational designs and management techniques written to date. Based on research conducted at USC's Center for Effective Organization, this volume tells how to create a company with high levels of employee involvement and identifies revolutionary new management techniques. Knowledge organizations, senior team management, distributed staffs, and virtual networks are among the many forward-looking organizational forms and phenomena explained and explored. Shows precisely how all organizational structures can be aligned to move information, power, knowledge, and rewards downward to maximize performance throughout the organization.  

Introduction: Challenges to the Established Order
Part One: New Organizational Forms
1. The Value Adding Corporation: Matching Structure with Strategy(Jay R. Galbraith)
2. The Business Unit of the Future(Jay R. Galbraith)
3. New Roles for the Staff: Strategic Support and Services(Edward E. Lawler III, Jay R. Galbraith)
Part Two: Organizing for Internal Effectiveness
4. Organizational Change and Learning(Susan Albers Mohrman, Allan M. Mohrman, Jr.)
5. Integrating Roles and Structure in the Lateral Organization(Susan Albers Mohrman)
6. Employee Involvement: Lessons and Predictions(Gerald E. Ledford, Jr.)
7. Creating the High-Involvement Organization(Edward E. Lawler III)
8. New Approaches to Teams and Teamwork(Susan G. Cohen)
Part Three: Developing and Managing Human Resources
9. Human Resource Management: Building a Strategic Partnership(Allan M. Mohrman, Jr., Edward E. Lawler III)
10. Developing Leadership(Morgan W. McCall, Jr.)
Conclusion: Effective Organizations: Using the New Logic of Organizing