The Ultimate Advantage

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.

Part One: Searching for Competitive Advantage. 1. Make Management an Advantage. 2. Choose the Right Management Style. Part Two: Designing Organizations, Work, and Rewards. 3. Create a High-Involvement Structure. 4. Identify Work Design Alternatives. 5. Develop Involving Work. 6. Foster Organization-Improvement Groups. 7. Pay the Person, Not the Job. Part Three: Managing Information and Human Resources. 9. Promote Open Information Channels. 10. Establish High-Involvement Management Practices. 11. Support Positive Managerial Behavior. 12. Involve Unions in the Organization. Part Four: Creating High-Involvement Organizations. 13. Develop High-Involvement Business Units. 14. Manage the Change Toward High-Involvement.